St. Jerome Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by St. Jerome:
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
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Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
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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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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
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Why do you not practice what you preach.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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