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Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell
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Oliver Cromwell
Age: 59 †
Born: 1599
Born: April 25
Died: 1658
Died: September 3
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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Necessity has no law.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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Make the iron hot by striking it.
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My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together and God is far more above nature.
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If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.
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WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
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A man-of-war is the best ambassador.
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Some people have food, but no appetite others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
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I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.
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Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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