To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEWhen I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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