Begin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEA fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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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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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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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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