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.
ST. JEROMEEither 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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