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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

Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
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 most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
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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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
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
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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

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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