Jerome quotes

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. (Jerome)
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Sweet it is to lay aside the weight of the body and to soar into the pure bright ether. Do you dread poverty? Christ calls the poor blessed. (Luke 6:20) Does toil frighten you? No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. Are you anxious as regards food? Faith fears no famine. Do you dread the bare ground for limbs wasted with fasting? The Lord lies there beside you. Do you recoil from an unwashed head and uncombed hair? Christ is your true head. Does the boundless solitude of the desert terrify you? In the spirit you may walk always in paradise. Do but turn your thoughts there and you will be no more in the desert.
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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. (Jerome)
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"
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And had I taken the line-so often adopted by strong men in controversy-of justifying the means by the result.
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Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.
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Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. (Jerome)
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
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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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Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
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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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