Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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