While there is a devil and a wicked man in the world, never expect a charter of exemption from trouble—Thomas Watson
Depend upon it, however, let men rebel against this truth as they will, that God has determined the end from the beginning. He has left no screw loose in the machine, He has left nothing to chance or accident.- Charles Spurgeon@CHSpurgeon
Christianity has occasionally calmed the brutal German lust for battle, but it cannot destroy that savage ecstasy....When once the restraining talisman, the Cross, is broken...the old stone gods will leap to life among forgotten ruins, and Thor will crash down his mighty hammer on the Gothic cathedrals. - Heinrich Heine, in Robert Carr, The Paths of Dictatorship
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.- Heinrich Heine
Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented. Heine (1797-1856)
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