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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
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
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
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
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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
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
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise

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