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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

St. Jerome

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
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
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.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
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
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
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.
ST. JEROME

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
ST. JEROME

Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
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

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

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