A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance.

Jack London

Tags: devil sailor cockney sea-wolf

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Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge
for mankind in polished speeches
that are no more than vaporous winds
rustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags: devil play faust faustus-faustian-legend

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What you inherit from your father
must first be earned before it's yours.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags: devil faust faustus faustian-legend

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Being full of mischief, they love to listen;
they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,
pretending to be sent from Heaven,
and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags: devil faust faustus faustian-legend

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When he comes to the door
he always looks mocking and half-way angry.
You can see he has sympathy for nothing.
It's written on his forehead
that he can love no one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tags: devil faust faustus faustian-legend

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Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang!

Mikhail Bulgakov

Tags: devil bureaucracy irony

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Love – Acceptance – Unity – Peace –Integrity – Respect… a strong, pure creed is short on words and long on nourishing ideas. For me, the longer the creed the more it has been diluted, manipulated, and spoiled. The results of this creed poisoning can be seen in the behavior of its followers. We have all heard the expression, “The devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true.

Steve Maraboli

Tags: love devil acceptance peace integrity god religion ideas creed unity respect

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La música, la luz de la luna y los sueños son mis armas mágicas.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: devil magic magia diablo

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Existo desde el principio del mundo y, desde entonces, soy un ironista.

Fernando Pessoa

Tags: devil irony diablo ironía

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