St. Jerome Quotes

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome

Friendship, True, Thinks

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome

Long, Friend, Found

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome

Mind, Heart, Eyes

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome

Good, Best, Rest

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome

Love, Affection, Price

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome

Thoughts, Fat, Fine

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome

Friendship, Real, Cease

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome

Marriage, Good, Alone

Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome

Why, Practice, Preach

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

Life, Heart, Book

Virginity can be lost by a thought.
St. Jerome

Lost, Thought, Virginity

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome

May, Find, Devil

They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome

Men, Live, Talk

The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome

Others, Teach, Scars

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome

Beauty, Adorned

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

Moment, Hour, Improve

Haste is of the Devil.
St. Jerome

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome

Work, May, Find

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
St. Jerome

Through, Law, Become

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
St. Jerome

Action, Name, Attached

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
St. Jerome

Good, Brain, Speed

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

War, Friends, Dead

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Biography

Type: Saint

Born: 347

Died: 420

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