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The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
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Feeling Lying Pain Suffering
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God’s fair bride; and maiden’s souls are such.
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Lust Religious Soul
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
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic 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
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious

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