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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More St. Jerome Quotes
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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