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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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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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Enemy Hate Truth
Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.
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Character Eyes Woman
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious
Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Deep Inspirational Philosophy Teaching Truth
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
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Eyes Kindness Practice
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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Born Death Religious
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
Where our joy is, there should our work be.
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Joy Ourselves Work
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
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Born Death Prevention
Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Hero King People Violence
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
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
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Conquer God Prayer

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