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.
ST. JEROMEFailure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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