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St. Jerome
Saint
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Rest
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
St. Jerome,
Saint
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.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Being
#War
#Friends
#Dying
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Friendship
They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Talk
#Men
#Angels
The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Caution
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Friendship
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Heart
#Mind
#Eyes
#Secrets
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Night
#Marriage
#Sleep
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Love
#Affection
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.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Life
#Heart
#Daughter
#First
#Holiness
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Work
#May
#Devil
Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Devil
#Haste
Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Practice
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
St. Jerome,
Saint
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#May
#Devil
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Will
#Earth
#Peace
#Soul
#Heaven
Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Action
#Name
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Action
#Will
#Law
#Maxim
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Friend
#Difficulty
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Thoughts
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Beauty
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
St. Jerome,
Saint
#Thought
#Virginity