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resist quotes

  • Submit yourselvesthereforeto God,Resistthe devil, and he will flee from you.Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    James 4:7^8.

  • I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

    - Charles de Gaulle
      In the NewYork Times,12 May.

  • We resist only what is inevitable.

    - Henry Valentine Miller
      Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch,'Paradise Lost'.

  • I can resist everything except temptation.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      Lord Darlington. LadyWindermere's Fan, act1.

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