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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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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
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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
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
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

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