Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROMEHaste is of the Devil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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