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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

St. Jerome

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
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
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
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture

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