Idols

(141 votes)   'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(121 votes)   The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(104 votes)   The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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(87 votes)   When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Richard H. Tawney
1880-1962, British Educator

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(86 votes)   Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

Andrew Matthews
American Artist, Cartoonist, Author

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(79 votes)   Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry.

William B. Ullathorne

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