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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

St. Jerome

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. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
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.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Lost One Liner Thinking
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.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
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.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
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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Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
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.
ST. JEROME

Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

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