• The bastard! He doesn't exist!

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 47 reads

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• The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.8 · 59 votes · 145 reads

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• The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 2 reads

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• The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 89 reads

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• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 179 reads

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• The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 19 reads

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• The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 97 reads

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• The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 116 reads

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• The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 189 reads

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• The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 76 reads

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• The devil has his elect.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 132 reads

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• The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 44 reads

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• The devil is God's ape!

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.6 · 55 votes · 84 reads

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• The devil is the author of confusion.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.3 · 53 votes · 45 reads

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• The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  4.6 · 9 votes · 148 reads

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• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 153 reads

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• The dice of God are always loaded.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 19 reads

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• The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 144 reads

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• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 110 reads

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• The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 87 reads

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• The English Bible: a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 39 reads

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• The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 198 reads

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• The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.6 · 47 votes · 79 reads

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.0 · 58 votes · 25 reads

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• The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 200 reads

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• The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 159 reads

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• The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 126 reads

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• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.7 · 30 votes · 195 reads

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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 130 reads

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• The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 4 reads

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• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 122 reads

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• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 88 reads

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• The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 119 reads

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• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 108 reads

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• The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 53 votes · 15 reads

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• The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 187 reads

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• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 57 reads

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• The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 109 reads

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• The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 75 reads

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• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 175 reads

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• The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

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  Persian proverb

  Persian

  3.7 · 5 votes · 193 reads

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it be

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 163 reads

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• The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on peo

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 96 reads

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one, the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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• The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.2 · 28 votes · 117 reads

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• The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 141 reads

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• The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.3 · 29 votes · 44 reads

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• The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 167 reads

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• The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.3 · 31 votes · 67 reads

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• The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 105 reads

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• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 94 reads

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• The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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• Theology is unnecessary.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 48 reads

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• There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 13 reads

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• There is a crack in everything God has made.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 167 reads

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• There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 38 reads

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• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 137 reads

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• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 10 reads

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• There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 52 reads

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• There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 5 reads

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• There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 34 reads

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• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult w

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 132 reads

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• There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what the

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 108 reads

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• There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 65 reads

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• Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 29 reads

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• This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 80 reads

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• This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 75 reads

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• Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 132 reads

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• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 87 reads

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• Those who spiritualize tell spiritual lies, because they lack spiritual eyes.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 60 votes · 19 reads

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• Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 101 reads

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• Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 70 reads

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• Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 34 votes · 180 reads

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• Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 55 reads

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• To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.9 · 26 votes · 103 reads

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• To be with God.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 33 votes · 18 reads

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• To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 174 reads

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• To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 23 votes · 19 reads

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• To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 52 reads

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