James Russell Lowell Quotes About Devil
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
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