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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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