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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

St. Jerome

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious 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
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
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
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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

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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