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

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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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Achievement Argument
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame

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