"You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into."
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"Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes."
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"Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand."
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"You can give the Devil too much or too little attention."
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"In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!"
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"In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else."
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"Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father."
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"Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you."
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"The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due."
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"Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light."
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"When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows"
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"They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others."
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"God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me."
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"In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong."
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"Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments."
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"I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way."
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"Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?"
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"It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful."
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"Fear is the tool of a man-made devil"
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"The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth."
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