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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced…
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Despair makes priests and friars.
— Martin Luther
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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
— Walter Scott
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It was Rome, on the fifteenth of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted…
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I shall not die, but live; and again declare the evil deeds of the friars.
— John Wycliffe
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A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is…
— Mickey Rooney
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Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!
— Jose Rizal
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Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother…
— Daniel Defoe
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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many…
— Richard Harris Barham
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
— John O'Keefe
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