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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

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Busy Devil Yourself
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
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
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
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality

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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