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Make the iron hot by striking it.
Oliver Cromwell
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Oliver Cromwell
Age: 59 †
Born: 1599
Born: April 25
Died: 1658
Died: September 3
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Cromwell
Lord Protector
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Necessity has no law.
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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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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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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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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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Those who stop being better stop being good.
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My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
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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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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 was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.
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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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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.
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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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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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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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