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Letter "D" » devil
«People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.»
«No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.»
«It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?»
«May you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead»
«If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old»
«IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
devil,
experiments,
farm,
farms,
growth,
idleness,
model,
modeled,
Model I,
Model T,
promotes,
Seeds,
sins,
staple,
staples,
the Devil,
The Farm,
vices
«It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
advantage,
advantaged,
break,
devil,
easy,
faith,
like the devil,
shake,
shake up,
spirit,
take advantage,
terribly,
to advantage,
working man
«History is the devil's scripture»
«O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
devil,
Hast,
invisible,
let us know,
name calling,
No Name,
Thee,
The Devil You Know,
thou,
wine
«I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that's in [you] should set hell on fire.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
damned,
damnedest,
devil,
Have You,
lest,
oil,
oiled,
oiling,
oils,
oil well,
on fire,
the Devil