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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

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
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
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
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
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
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.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water
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

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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