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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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For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
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Enough God Men Reveal
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
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
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem

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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