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“You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility."”

Ifs Men World Way Made Easy Can Do Responsibility Devil Blame Hey Easy Way Blame Me Don't Blame Me

Author:Ice Cube

“Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.”

Thinking Body Easy Devil Naked Doomed Prey

Author:Jose Bergamin

“Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.”

I Can Soul Easy Lines Known Devil Sells Buying Easy Road

Author:Aaron Tippin

“Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.”

Ifs Persons Soul Body Easy Space Benefits Devil Labor Driving Lust Employment Ease Emptiness Idle Severe Tempted Idleness Creeps Unemployed Chaste Driving Away

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .”

Law Easy Devil Gentle Pleasant

Book:The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.”

Needs Believe Whole Light Spiritual Culture Evil Easy Dark Darkness Greater Needed Devil Western Narrative Western Culture Dichotomy

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.”

People Want Easy Devil Philosopher Brands Worshippers Great Philosophers

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.”

Ifs Hands Suffering Easy Alive Trouble Devil Parts Of Life

Book:Total Surrender

Source: Total Surrender

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”

Ifs Giving Kind Use Action Next Easy Virtue Habit Devil Angel Fairs Assuming Monsters Tonight Customs Stamps Refrain Abstinence Easiness Hamlet Love

Author:William Shakespeare

“I see what you mean. It must be a huge relief, and an easy way out, to think the devil is always outside of us. (…) we would stop looking for Sheitan outside and instead focus on ourselves. What we need is sincere self-examination. Not being on the watch for the faults of others.” (p. 257).”

Thinking Way Needs Mean Self Easy Watches Focus Huge Devil Faults Relief Sincere Examination Easy Way Self-examination

Author:Elif Safak

“Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.”

Kind Use Night Next Easy Nature Masters Devil Stamps Refrain Wondrous Abstinence Potency Easiness Hamlet Love

Book:The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

Source: The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir

“It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.”

Men Inspirational Spirit Faith Easy Work Break Devil Advantage Self Confidence Shakes

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no, Christine, there is more. But people are satisfied. They know so much, they think they know all. And that makes it easy for Nosferatu. That makes it easy for all the devils.”

People Thinking Knows World Believe Has Beens Whole Running Able Law Easy Devil Satisfied Whole World Vampire Believe In God Christine Nosferatu

Author:Lincoln Maazel