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• For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Unjust, Riches

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• Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

  St. Jerome

  Religious, Vices, Done

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• Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

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  God, Intelligence, Mind

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• To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

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  Prayer, Saint, Slumber

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• If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

  St. Jerome

  Cases, Ifs

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• Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

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  Fall, Bird, Beast

  "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,

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• [O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

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  Results, Theft, Committed

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• If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

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  Water, Littles, Faults

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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• That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

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  Dinner, Clergymen, Contempt

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

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• An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

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  Sacrifice, Ethics, Given

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• Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

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  Daughter, Grieving, Egypt

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• The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

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  Cute, Strong, Mean

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• Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

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  Men, Sexism, Inequality

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• Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

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  Keys, Play, Knowing

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• Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

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  House, Lambs, Sacraments

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• Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

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  Tyrants, Land, People

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• Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

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  Religious, Giving, Novelty

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• Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

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  Purple, Mind, Wool

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.399, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

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  World, Necks, Obstinacy

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• Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

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  Athlete, Effort, Stronger

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.467, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

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  Character, Mistress, Dresses

  "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,

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• Small minds can never handle great themes.

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  Mind, Theme, Handle

  "Letter 60" by Saint Jerome,

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• Quick enough, if good enough.

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  Haste, Good Enough, Enough

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Epistle. LXVI. Par. 9, 1922.

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• It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

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  Play, Ass, Idle

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

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  Laziness, Neglect, Easier

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.26, Jazzybee Verlag

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