St. Jerome
Quotes by St. Jerome
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
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I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
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