The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROMEKeep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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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.
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