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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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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
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
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
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness

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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