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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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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline Faith Judgement Quality
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
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
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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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