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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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

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