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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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
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
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
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
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching

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