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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

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
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
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
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
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
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
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
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
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk

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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