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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

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
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

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.

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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.

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