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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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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
God the Father’s a deep root; the Son’s the shoot that breaks into the world; the Spirit spreads the beauty & fragrance.
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Break Children Father Spirit World
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
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
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder

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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