A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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