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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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Beautiful Lust Religious
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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Hope One Liner Patience
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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Apperance Blind Easy Kind
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 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
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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Enough God Men Reveal
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
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
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
I believe because it is absurd.
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Believe Myself
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Blood Body Soul Spiritual
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
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
The blood of the Christians is seed.
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Blood Christian Seed
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
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Death Himself Life World
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness

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