Tag: St. Jerome
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome
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Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome
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Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome
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It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
St. Jerome
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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
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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.
St. Jerome