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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

St. Jerome

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
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.
ST. JEROME

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME

Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROME

Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Worth Yourself
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. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

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