"God made them as stubble to our swords."

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"God made them as stubble to our swords."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."

Trust

"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."

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"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."

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"Necessity has no law."

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"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."

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"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

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"A few honest men are better than numbers."

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"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else."

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"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

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"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

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