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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

St. Jerome

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Tired Walk
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME

Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
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.
ST. JEROME

Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROME

Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
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?
ST. JEROME

Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROME

Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

Affection Love Money Price
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROME

Empty Preserve Stomach

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