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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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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
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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Enemy Hurt Religious
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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Enough God Men Reveal
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
It is to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
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
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
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
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
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End Live Marriage
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth

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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