Flora Thompson Short Quotes

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And so the shadows ripple on
until it's time to part

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Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

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You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

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Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

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The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many...

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Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

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"Coming events cast their shadows before" quoted the clergyman...

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They had not much original wit, but had inherited a stock of cheerful sayings which passed as such.

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'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise peole.

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What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

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The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

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"I don't believe in folks making a sort of mystery of themselves. I believe in being neighbourly, I do".

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Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

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Happiness depends more upon the state of mind — and body, perhaps — than upon circumstances and events.

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Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

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It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

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We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

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Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed ", and I think he was right.

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They didn't want votes, either. A vote wasn't going to raise wages or make bread cheaper. What did it matter to them what Government was in power.

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The children did not remain children long. Boys of seven or eight went to work in the fields... Girl children of ten or eleven sent out into service...

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Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

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'Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had the merit of giving credit where credit was due.

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There was no Victoria in the school... That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by period novelists of today.

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Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author.. reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

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Our poet's singing lips are dumb:
This his last gift, to us has brought
The pain pressed vintage of his thought
His life of song, his life of pain,
And, being dead, he speaks again.

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