#devil

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working. ↗

— Dean Stockwell

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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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