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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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Forgiveness God Let Go Truth
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself

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