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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Woman is the root of all evil.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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I have God in my words and the devil in my ear, and a sister who keeps telling me to find my magic.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Don’t want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Dance with me. Bring my demons to their knees.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
Munshi PremchandMunshi Premchand Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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