"Quote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deface the countenance of the Almighty. To say that such and such was so and so, when the speaker did not believe it, was to lead people to worship a false God instead of a true one; an e?d????; setting them, to quote the words of the Psalmist, "a-whoring after their own imaginations." He saw the Divine presence in everything—the evil as well as the good; the evil being the expression of the Divine will that such ...
— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler
... ask? Because I quote old poetry? My dear, it is to convince you that I am in excellent humor with all the world, and that you have no cause to complain of me. I do not intend to enact the role of a 'cruel parent,' in order ...
— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... in a passion, and the rector muttered, "The Devil may quote Scripture, but he does not like to hear it read. Come, Charlotte, let us thank God, thank him twice, nay, thrice, not alone for the faith of Christ Jesus, but also for the legacy of Christ Jesus. Oh, child, amid earth's weary restlessness and noisy ...
— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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— The Beacon Second Reader • James H. Fassett
... picture of our life as it was at this time, I will quote a day from my diary. March 25 — Saturday: "Beautiful mild weather, 6.8deg. F. all day. Very light breeze from the south-east. Our seal-hunters — the party that came home from 81deg. S. — were out this morning, and brought back three seals. This ...
— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen
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