"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

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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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"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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"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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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

Men

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."

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"Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent."

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"One best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

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"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad."

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"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

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"The dog is the god of frolic."

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"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

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