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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

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
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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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Doubt Himself
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
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.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself

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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