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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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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 work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
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

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