Quote #22
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once woll has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
More from St. Jerome
- Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
- The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
- Small minds can never handle great themes.
- Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
- When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
- The scars of others should teach us caution.
- It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.