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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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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
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.
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Born Christian Men
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
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
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 to believed because it is absurd.
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Believe Mad One Liner
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Patience is God’s nature.
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God Nature One Liner Patience Religious
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
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
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
The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
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
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old 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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