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St. Jerome
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23 Quotes by St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome - 2.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome - 3.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome - 4.
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 - 5.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Action without a name, a “who” attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome - 7.
Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome - 8.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome - 9.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome - 10.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome - 11.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome - 12.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome - 13.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
St. Jerome - 14.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome - 15.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome - 16.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome - 17.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome - 18.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
St. Jerome - 19.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome - 20.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
St. Jerome - 21.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome - 22.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome - 23.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome