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“Odd that a thing is most itself when likened”
― Collected Poems 1943-2004
― Collected Poems 1943-2004
“I don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.”
― The Princess and Curdie
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.”
― The Princess and Curdie
“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
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“Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.”
― The Princess and Curdie
― The Princess and Curdie
“It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.”
― The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
― The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
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