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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.

Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

What is the scent of water?"
"Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

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.

His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

Love. The only indestructible thing. The only wealth and the only reality. The only survival. At the end of it all there was nothing else.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.

Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ...

Cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

Marriage is a very long process ...

He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.

Love, and nothing else, was eternal. Love is the Lord by whom we escape death.

She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.

The fires of youth are not dead in old age ... only banked down.

Butterflies ... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass.

Is independence so bad for one?" asked Daphne.
"Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.

The scent of a flower is a very close and intimate thing, she thought. It can seem to be a part of your body and blood.

Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

It takes a happy marriage to make light of small things.

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.

Now her compassion had been pierced and set flowing; it felt as though her life's blood were running away.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

Always ailing though never with any specific

Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.

Given belief in God, a good digestion and a mind in working order life's still a thing to be grateful for.

What we are made to do we seldom do well, what we do of our own choice we make a success of for very pride.

Those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

And the written words were footsteps, feet running hard to another person.

A close union with the earth seemed to involve one in unison with a good deal more than the earth.

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

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.

Insufficient nourishment in the early morning leads to pessimism and doubts.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?

The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.

There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.

His hostess was one of those women who even in an overcrowded room can create a sense of spaciousness.

I don't fly to the classics for comfort, as Giles does. I'm too frivolous. Worthy people always read the classics when things are difficult.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.
'Reverence,' he replied.

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Love still owned him, steered him, drew him to itself.

I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.

She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.