Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow. - Cotton Mather

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I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

Cotton Mather

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

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That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

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Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

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You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

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Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

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Ricky Gervais

I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.

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Teresa of Avila

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

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Lauren Oliver

If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

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James A. Michener

I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect. . . . For after all, they could be my people.

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David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

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