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Ellis Peters quotes: Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive! Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
Ellis Peters quotes: Perhaps thought really is prayer. Perhaps thought really is prayer.
Ellis Peters quotes: I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
Ellis Peters quotes: Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid. Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Ellis Peters quotes: Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment! Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
Ellis Peters quotes: Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly. Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Ellis Peters quotes: There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful. There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.
Ellis Peters quotes: Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Ellis Peters quotes: What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more. Cadfael, Pg. 255 What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more. Cadfael, Pg. 255
Ellis Peters quotes: The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy. The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.
Ellis Peters quotes: Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards. Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
Ellis Peters quotes: Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that. Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.
Ellis Peters quotes: Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world. Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
Ellis Peters quotes: A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
Ellis Peters quotes: Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light. Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Ellis Peters quotes: There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason. There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
Ellis Peters quotes: To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals. To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
Ellis Peters quotes: Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case. Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
Ellis Peters quotes: Provable truths are what we need. Provable truths are what we need.
Ellis Peters quotes: the good sense to fortify himself with the things of the flesh for the struggles of the spirit. the good sense to fortify himself with the things of the flesh for the struggles of the spirit.
Ellis Peters quotes: I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand. I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.
Ellis Peters quotes: The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
Ellis Peters quotes: Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be. Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.
Ellis Peters quotes: You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you. You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.
Ellis Peters quotes: God sort all! As doubtless he is doing, now as ever! God sort all! As doubtless he is doing, now as ever!
Ellis Peters quotes: It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
Ellis Peters quotes: Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows. Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.
Ellis Peters quotes: All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil. All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
Ellis Peters quotes: Beauty is a perilous gift ... Beauty is a perilous gift ...
Ellis Peters quotes: He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
Ellis Peters quotes: When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain. When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
Ellis Peters quotes: As roads go, the road home is as good as any. As roads go, the road home is as good as any.
Ellis Peters quotes: In every decision there must be some regrets. In every decision there must be some regrets.
Ellis Peters quotes: Now have ado with a man! Now have ado with a man!
Ellis Peters quotes: God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance. God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
Ellis Peters quotes: Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away. Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
Ellis Peters quotes: It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions. It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
Ellis Peters quotes: In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly. In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly.
Ellis Peters quotes: Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters quotes: Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it. Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
Ellis Peters quotes: What are wits for unless a man uses them? What are wits for unless a man uses them?
Ellis Peters quotes: Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
Ellis Peters quotes: The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow. The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.
Ellis Peters quotes: Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael) Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael)
Ellis Peters quotes: Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. - Pg. 2 Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. - Pg. 2
Ellis Peters quotes: Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Ellis Peters quotes: There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil. There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Ellis Peters quotes: Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it. Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it.
Ellis Peters quotes: Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly. Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly.
Ellis Peters quotes: The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you. The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
Ellis Peters quotes: Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254 Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
Ellis Peters quotes: And are you thinking, Hugh, what I am thinking? And are you thinking, Hugh, what I am thinking?
Ellis Peters quotes: Nothing learned is ever quite wasted. Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.
Ellis Peters quotes: Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned. Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
Ellis Peters quotes: What you do and what you are is what matters. What you do and what you are is what matters.
Ellis Peters quotes: There's an art in every labour. There's an art in every labour.
Ellis Peters quotes: So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another? So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?
Ellis Peters quotes: Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
Ellis Peters quotes: You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away. You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
Ellis Peters quotes: The thing about fear," said Cadfael, seriously considering, "is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten. The thing about fear," said Cadfael, seriously considering, "is that it is pointless. When need arises, fear is forgotten.

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