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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.

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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
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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Men Patience Woman
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
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
Those who fled will fight another time.
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Fight One Liner Time
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
It is certain because it is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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 flees will fight again.
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Fight Himself Run
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
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.
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Evil Religious Violence
Custom without truth is error grown old.
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Growth Old Truth
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
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Freedom Pieces
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Discipline One Liner
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Dog God Sarcastic Truth
I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Atheist Believe Religion
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
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.
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Atheist Men Nature Prayer
Christians are made, not born.
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Born Christian Place
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

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