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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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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
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
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
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
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
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
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.

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