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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

St. Jerome

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.
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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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 fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
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
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
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
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

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