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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goe...more

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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are,...more

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When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not bee...more

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Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, y...more

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I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slaver...more

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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

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It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.

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The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear ...more

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The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

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The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.