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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

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To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction 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
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

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