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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?

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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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
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
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman

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