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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

St. Jerome

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
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
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROME

Act Action Talk Word
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Lost One Liner Thinking
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROME

God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
ST. JEROME

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin

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