The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’

Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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Deep Present
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
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
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
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Inspirational Work
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman

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