The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMEEverything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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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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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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