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The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. I, subsect. III)
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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick
(Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 1,313)
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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine
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If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him
Martin Luther
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Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
Robert Burton
Quotes , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. III)
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Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as
tiles on its roofs, I would enter.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (epilogue, last stanza)
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Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of
sables.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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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.
Helen Keller
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Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man
Sigmund Freud
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No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
Guy H. King
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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Peter (ch. V, v. 8)
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How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. XIV, v. 12)
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you.
Bible
Quotes , Source: James (ch. IV, v. 7)
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His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it
shall bring him to the king of terrors.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XVIII, v. 14)
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Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of
the world.
Book of Common Prayer
Quotes , Source: Public Baptism of Infants
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Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes , Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 602), The Squire's Tale
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"I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him.
He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man
created God, then?" observed Alyosha.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Quotes , Source: The Brothers Karamazov
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