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It is certain because it is impossible.

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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
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
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
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
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth

It is certain because it is impossible.

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