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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!
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Devil Men Sick
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
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 blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
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
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

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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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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