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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

St. Jerome

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Bond Difficult Friendship
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

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