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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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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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Temples Women
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
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Divorce Marriage Religious
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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God Human Way
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Blood Growth Religious
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Faith Impossible
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?
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Earth Religious Sky
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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Men Present
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
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Men Moments Prayer
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
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
He who flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
It is certain because it is impossible.
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Impossible One Liner
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
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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