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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

St. Jerome

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
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
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
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME

Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship

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