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"Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers."

"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."
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"Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy."

"The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties."

"A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger."

"A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure."

"The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome."

"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."
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