“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.”
“The Begat” in Finian’s Rainbow (1946).
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“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
Conversation with private secretary John Hay (23 December 1863), describing a dream Lincoln had that evening, in Abraham Lincoln : A History (1890) by John Hay
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“Wisdom made him old and wary
Banishing the Lords of Faery.”
"Babylon".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Wisdom made him old and wary
Banishing the Lords of Faery.
Wisdom made a breach and battered
Babylon to bits: she scattered
To the hedges and ditches
All our nursery gnomes and witches.

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract

Tablet to ‘Him Who Will Be Made Manifest’

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
I, 1
Confessions (c. 397)