Edith Pargeter - Man Quotes

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

Edith Pargeter

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.

Edith Pargeter

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

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

Edith Pargeter