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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

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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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
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
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People 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
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

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