No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMEThey talk like angels but they live like men.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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