Devil Quote by John Webster

“A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.”

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Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

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All the damnable degrees Of drinking have you staggered through.

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“Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.”

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A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In…

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“We make desire, not truth, the real clue to what’s valuable. If we desire something, then it has value; if not, we despise and…

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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

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“In company with Christians down through the ages, we read…every passage of Scripture…out of the fact that for us, the center of Scripture is…

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“Fellowship with God is what human beings are for. That is, we flourish as human beings if we live in free and joyful and…

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“Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me”

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How tedious is a guilty conscience!

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“Think't the best voyage that e'er you made like an irregular crab which, though’t goes backward, thinks that it goes right, because it goes…

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“Why is it that we often go away from Scripture unmoved, unaffected, dull? In the end, it’s because we refuse to be schooled by…

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

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“I tend to agree with that little devil more and more these days.”

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