Edith Pargeter Quotes

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

Edith Pargeter
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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The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

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He conceded that there must still be hope for a species which had produced Mozart.

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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

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Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be... or the stillness. To have no more running to do... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

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Every man has within him only one life and one nature... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

Edith Pargeter