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St. Jerome

Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
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
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Death Expense Himself Man Mom
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
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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Care Listening Oneself Talk
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice

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