"We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents."

Morality, Satan, Talent, Respect, Power

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"We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

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"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."

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"In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par."

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"Be good and you will be lonesome."

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"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."

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"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."

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"He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'."

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"It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

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