Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROMEHonest speech does not seek secret places.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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