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. JEROMEEndeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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