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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.

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The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
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
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.

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