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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
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
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
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Deep Easy Fast Talk
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
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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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
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
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret 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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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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