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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.

St. Jerome

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
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
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
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
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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Care Listening Oneself Talk
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
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
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
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
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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

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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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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