If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out. – Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino

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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. – G. K. Chesterton

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