Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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