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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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Nature Poet Rumor
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
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
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
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
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
The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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Believe Death God Impossible Mad
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
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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Born Death Difference Life
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
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

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