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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More St. Jerome Quotes
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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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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