Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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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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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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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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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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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