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And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

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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
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
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
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
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
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
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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Nature Religion
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

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