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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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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles Religious
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
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
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
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
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
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth

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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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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