"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

Roosevelt, Theodore on evil
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"The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil."

Proverb, Arabian on evil
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"Speak the truth and shame the devil."

Proverb on evil
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"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."

Pope, Alexander on evil
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"The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on evil   

"Why should the devil have all the good tunes?"

Hill, Rowland on evil   

"The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself."

Havner, Vance on evil
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"If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once."

Harris, Sidney J. on evil
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"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."

Cowper, William on evil   

"“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” "

Mark Twain on religion
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"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."

Angelou, Maya on god
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep - pain that cannot forget; Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus on god
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"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on fights and fighting
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"That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."

Shaw, George Bernard on fights and fighting   

"The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [Merchant Of Venice]"

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."

Tozer, A. W. on evil
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"For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do."

Watts, Isaac on evil
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion."

Proverb, Arabian on death
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"If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you."

Proverb, American on death
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Proust, Marcel on death
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"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."

Pound, Ezra on death
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."

Brodsky, Joseph on evil
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"Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad."

Bischer on evil   

"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

Bellow, Saul on evil
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"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."

Aristotle on evil
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"Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains."

Proverb on fights and fighting
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fights and fighting
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"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God."

Browning, Robert on defeat
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"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat."

Brown, Paul on defeat
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"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

Beecher, Henry Ward on defeat   

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on defeat
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"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."

Cervantes, Miguel De on hope
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"There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out."

Becker, May L. on hope
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