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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
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
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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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Nature Soul Teaching

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