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The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance.
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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
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It is when a man has to soak his biscuits in his tea that he knows he's old.
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There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
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What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
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These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go.
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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
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I don't think there's anything more tiring... than expecting people who don't turn up.
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He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.
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A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
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The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.
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Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.
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The shocking discovery that her way was not necessarily good because it was hers had been epoch-making in her life.
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Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
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Wiggins was not one of those emotional dogs who let themselves go with quivering whiskers, hot nose, and dribbling tongue.
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Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
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I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
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Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
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Maria was one of your true aristocrats; the perfection of the hidden things was even more important to her than the outward show.
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Civilization... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.
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One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.
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We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear.... Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Elizabeth Goudge
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Born:
April 24, 1900
Died:
April 1, 1984
(aged 83)
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