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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

St. Jerome

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.
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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Care Listening Oneself Talk
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
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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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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