To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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