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

St. Jerome

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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
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
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
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
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

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