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Oliver Cromwell
English
Soldier
About the author
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#God
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Fact
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#State
#Men
#Opinions
God made them as stubble to our swords.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#God
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Will
#May
#Integrity
Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#God
#Trust
Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Love
#Providence
A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Men
#Numbers
Nature can do more than physicians.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Nature
#Physicians
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#God
#Faith
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.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Government
#Sheep
#Wood
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.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Nothing
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Being
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Trust
Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Law
#Necessity
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell,
English
Soldier
#Christ
#May