Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
ST. JEROMEAnd 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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