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

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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor

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

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