“A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
The Consuming Fire
Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
“542. All Saint without, all Devil within.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
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“Here is the devil-and-all to pay.”
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 10.
“The bane of all that dread the Devil.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
The Idiot Boy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
