"If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too."
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"May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'."
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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."
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"New level, New devil."
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"Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils."
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"If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death."
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"Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance"
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"You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it."
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"Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!"
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"I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)"
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"The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?"
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"But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength."
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."
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"To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?"
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"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
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"The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras."
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"Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man."
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"A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil."
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"The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse."
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