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Haste is of the Devil.

St. Jerome

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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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
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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Deep Mistake Origin Water
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
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
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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

Haste is of the Devil.

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