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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Oliver Cromwell

A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.

I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible that you may be wrong.

I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this.

“Leave off your fooling and come down, sir.”

Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Vote it as you please; there is a company of poor men that will spend all their blood before they see it settled so.

What are all our histories but God manifesting himself, that he hath shaken, and tumbled down, and trampled upon everything that he hath not planted!