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
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When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
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His to grant what we ask;
ours to make a beginning,
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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