A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROMETo read without writing is to sleep.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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