Edith Pargeter Short Quotes

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

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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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