Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenses to break known rules by.
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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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He who stops being better stops being good.
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I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
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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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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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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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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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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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Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.
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We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.
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Take away that fool’s bauble, the mace.
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In every government there must be somewhat fundamental, somewhat like a Magna Charta, that should be standing and unalterable... that parliaments should not make themselves perpetual is a fundamental.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
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This is a righteous judgement of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood.
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If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.
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God made them as stubble to our swords.