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Wherever God Erects A House Of Prayer, The Devil Always Builds A Chapel There
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Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
-- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
-- The True-Born Englishman, Part i, Line 1
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Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
-- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) -- The True-Born Englishman, Part i, Line 1...
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
-- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- Jacula Prudentum...
Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Sect....
And without partiality, a woamn of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate part of God's creation.
-- Daniel DeFoe...
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel. Spanish Proverb
POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 557...
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
-- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Table-Talk, lxvii...
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 238...