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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.

St. Jerome

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
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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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
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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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Busy Devil Worth Yourself
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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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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