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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
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
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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Athens Jerusalem
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
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Hate One Liner Reaction Truth
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness

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