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Elizabeth Goudge

Life dates: 1900 AD — 1984 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1942 AD

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

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02c. 1942 AD

She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.

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03c. 1942 AD

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

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04c. 1942 AD

You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on sticks?'Brother Balaam jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at the church behind him. 'Ye'll get no civilization worth havin' in a new country unless ye lay down a few martyrs' bones for a foundation,' he said. 'They generate. Slow but sure.

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05c. 1942 AD

... 'Many waters cannot quench love' was said of divine, not human, love, which the Dean knew was not always tough enough to survive the indifference of misery. That was one of the chief reasons why he struggled to do away with misery.

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06c. 1942 AD

Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned him. The poor wretch could not move. Misery had become apathy and apathy had brought the inevitable paralysis of the will.

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07c. 1942 AD

In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ills with patience.

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08c. 1942 AD

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

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09c. 1942 AD

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

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10c. 1942 AD

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

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