It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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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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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
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There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
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Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.
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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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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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