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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

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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
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 Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
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
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth

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