Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Devil
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.
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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.
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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
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He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
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