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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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