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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?


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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.



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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.



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Only religion can lead to such evil.



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