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Virginity can be lost by a thought.

St. Jerome

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
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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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
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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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
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
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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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

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