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?
ST. JEROMENo athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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