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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

St. Jerome

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
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
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
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
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.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
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
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
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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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
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
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
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
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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

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