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• No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

  St. Jerome

  Athlete, Sweat, Brows

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

  St. Jerome

  Sin, Hundred, Thousand

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• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

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• What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

  St. Jerome

  Faults, Blame, Changed

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• Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

  St. Jerome

  Purses, Hiding, Stores

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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.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

  St. Jerome

  Devil, Busy, Engaged

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• The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

  St. Jerome

  Tired, Steps

  "Letter 112" by St. Jerome,

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• The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

  St. Jerome

  Home, Faults, Ends

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.524, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

  St. Jerome

  Self Esteem, Catholic, Esteem

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• I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

  St. Jerome

  Marriage, Unions, Praise

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• Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Short Summer, Moments

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• When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

  St. Jerome

  God, Eye, Light

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• Why do you not practise what you preach.

  St. Jerome

  Practice, Practice What You Preach

  "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LII, 2016.

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• The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Land, Facts

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He is rich enough who does not want bread.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Doe, Want

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• Virginity can be lost by a thought.

  St. Jerome

  Sex, Lost, Virginity

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• The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

  St. Jerome

  Character, Men, Personality

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• For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

  St. Jerome

  Dignity, Empty, Stomach

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• Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

  St. Jerome

  Seasoning

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

  St. Jerome

  Two, Evil, Wickedness

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• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Baptism, Trying

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Haste is of the Devil.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Devil, Haste

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• The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

  St. Jerome

  Strong, Sadness, Voice

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• While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

  St. Jerome

  Waiting, Bitter, Truth Is

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.116, Jazzybee Verlag

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