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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

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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 whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

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