Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
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The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight
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But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
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Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
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'Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil; For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do: And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the saints and wick
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O woman, perfect woman! What distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
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There was a laughing devil in his sneer, That rais'd emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
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No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.
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God is Love I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is
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Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
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The Devil finds work for idle hands.
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He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
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Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
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But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ, And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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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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The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
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An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
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To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.
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There are no whole truths all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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