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

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.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME

Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Worth 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.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
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.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
ST. JEROME

Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROME

Empty Preserve Stomach
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
ST. JEROME

Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Reality
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun

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

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