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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.

St. Jerome

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
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
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
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
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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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
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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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
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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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World

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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