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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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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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
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
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
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
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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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