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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

St. Jerome

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
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
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
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
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
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise

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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