Phyllis Bottome - The Mortal Storm (1937)

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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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It is you men who make war!... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

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He was so nearly honest a man, that his undigested lie, mortally disagreed with him.

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With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it — he is never for one instant safe!

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Our responsibility to ourselves comes first — because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

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When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

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Death... is not a great affair! Think — it happens once only — to each of us — as birth does. What do you know about being born? that — and no more — will you know about the act of death.

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All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it. Truth is its own defense.

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Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others — what is that to us? Let them alone.

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Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

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About generosity Freya did not think at all — for those who practice it never weigh it.

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Not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

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To Hans failure had no more moral significance than success.

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Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

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That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course — but far worse for the Christian who does it — for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew — whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain — if he ever was one — a good Christian!

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It is a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

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One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.

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No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

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Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside.

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