Edith Pargeter Quotes

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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

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He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding in his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, all those people who were in stress or grief...

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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies.

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Love with her would be a field of action, not a need. She was complete whether she won or lost the world. She was her own fortress and her own sanctuary.

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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

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What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more.

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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

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Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

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You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

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Sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith.

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Radulfus had the wise man's distant respect for perfection, but no great expectation of meeting it in the way.

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None of us has ever done enough — or never in the right direction.

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September was again September, mellowed and fruitful after the summer heat and drought. After every extreme the seasons righted themselves, and won back the half at least of what was lost.

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The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

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You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

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