Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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