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Oliver Cromwell
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Oliver Cromwell
Age: 59 †
Born: 1599
Born: April 25
Died: 1658
Died: September 3
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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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I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.
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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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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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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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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
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My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.
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Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.
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Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!
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Make the iron hot by striking it.
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That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.
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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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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
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Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
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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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Necessity has no law.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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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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