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Fear is the foundation of safety.

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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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner

Fear is the foundation of safety.

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