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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.

St. Jerome

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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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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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Care Listening Oneself Talk
Love knows nothing of order.
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Love One Liner Order
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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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
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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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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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Hard Impression Mindset White
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
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
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk

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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