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With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.


Thomas Fuller

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With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
THOMAS FULLER 'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The dev...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage And pious actio...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if t...
SENECA Do you want to be with your love by the sea hearing the gullsong smelling the salt air feeling the s...
SAIOM SHRIVER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on
THOMAS PAINE We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the...
RICHARD ROHR O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Th...
THOMAS FULLER Roper:So now youd give the Devil benefit of law!Sir Thomas More:Yes. What would you do? Cut a great ...
ROBERT BOLT If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER The evil that men do leads after them, but the evil that women do surprises the devil himself.
THE INSPIRATIONIST We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he i...
ALEXIS CARREL Every man for himself and the Devil for all.
VIKRANT PARSAI You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!
ANNE RICE And do I ask, wherefore my heart
Falters, oppressed with unknown needs?
Why some inexpli...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
E. M. CIORAN Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
EMILE M. CIORAN There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, o...
ANNE BRADSTREET Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER "Rogue that I am," he whispers to himself, "I lie, I cheat--do anything for pelf, But who on e...
AARON HILL Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll b...
DEAN KOONTZ The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.
THOMAS FULLER, M. D. The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself
ISAAC AMBROSE I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, an...
PAIGE VANZANT I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can di...
G.K. CHESTERTON Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
HORATIO NELSON treat every frenchman as if he was the devil himself
LORD NELSON Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious...
JOHANNES TAULER People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE We could all be much more effective if we had a fuller relationship which we do hope would be availa...
DENNIS BLAIR We like the idea of home devotions. They will be more teaching than preaching.
CURT HOOVER Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556 As the devil showed gr...
IGNATIUS LOYOLA It is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know.
VIKRANT PARSAI Let’s pursue the visage of imagination
MUNIA KHAN The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action o...
POPE BENEDICT XVI House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Life's irony;Man has always falsely accused the so called devil far more than the so called devil ha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no devil anywhere,for the devil is that person that refuses to do the right thing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of th...
TERESA OF ÁVILA In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the ...
DONNIE YEN When we do ill the Devil tempteth us; when we do nothing, we tempt him
THOMAS FULLER You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you ...
PAULO COELHO Sugar and caffeine play havoc with your blood sugar, so avoid tea and biscuits.
ANITA ELLIS When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.
HERMAN MELVILLE Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II Don’t you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal,...
KAMAND KOJOURI We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.
ALEX COX The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE It's a little fuller than it's been.
JEFF MCCRACKEN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail
HYMAN GEORGE RICKOVER Together we will finish and do great exploits for the Lord and the devil cannot stop us
SUNDAY ADELAJA Do not play games with the devil; it is dangerous for your future
SUNDAY ADELAJA They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that did...
PAULO COELHO Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't just stress, but so something about it
LIFE REACTIONS The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN Most Americans don't know a lot about Thomas Paine, but they carry Thomas Paine with them. Thomas Pa...
HARVEY KAYE The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
VANCE HAVNER ... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've eve...
TUCKER MAX They told tales as they sat at their work, and every one related what wonderful things he had seen o...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declar...
BILLY GRAHAM Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.
JAMES ALLEN We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?
DENNIS DESROSIERS Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and st...
E.M. BOUNDS Roberts did in many respects distance himself from Scalia and Thomas. I think that came through most...
ARTHUR HELLMAN I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I ...
TABATHA COFFEY I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPER It was a gutsy move to bring Thomas back with six minutes left in the game. Our press got us back in...
EVAN MASSEY All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
HOWARD CARTER I think with the acoustic bass it allows you to explore the fuller dynamic range.
DAVID SANBORN The devil likes it when we don’t do anything because this means we are moving backwards
SUNDAY ADELAJA The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observ...
ANTHONY PRICE Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
C. J. CHERRYH I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.
JAMES DASHNER Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. LEWIS The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LEWIS Saying Sugar-Sugar time and time again doesn't Sweetens Your Mouth, Reach for the Sugar and There Yo...
YUSAF The devil made me do it.
FLIP WILSON We could eliminate sugar across the board for all confectionary products and sodas, and we can repla...
HOMARO CANTU "Paint me as I am," said Cromwell, "Rough with age and gashed with wars; Show my visage as you...
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