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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

St. Jerome

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
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.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Heart Idol Religious Vice
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
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
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

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

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