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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

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Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
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
Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
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
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Hate Ignorance Men Philosophy

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