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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

St. Jerome

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROME

Heart Idol Religious Vice
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Tired Walk
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROME

Big Life Live Ourselves Short
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
ST. JEROME

Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROME

Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
ST. JEROME

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME

Humanity Move Power True
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
ST. JEROME

Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

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