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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
— Ellis Peters
Perhaps thought really is prayer.
— Ellis Peters
I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
— Ellis Peters
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
— Ellis Peters
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
— Ellis Peters
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
— Ellis Peters
There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.
— Ellis Peters
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
— Ellis Peters
The best way to get the sweet out of children and escape the bitter is to have them by proxy.
— Ellis Peters
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
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
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
— Ellis Peters
A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
— Ellis Peters
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
— Ellis Peters
There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
— Ellis Peters
Provable truths are what we need.
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the good sense to fortify himself with the things of the flesh for the struggles of the spirit.
— Ellis Peters
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
God sort all! As doubtless he is doing, now as ever!
— Ellis Peters
Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.
— Ellis Peters
Beauty is a perilous gift ...
— Ellis Peters
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
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
As roads go, the road home is as good as any.
— Ellis Peters
In every decision there must be some regrets.
— Ellis Peters
Now have ado with a man!
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God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
— Ellis Peters
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
— Ellis Peters
What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
— Ellis Peters
The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.
— Ellis Peters
Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael)
— Ellis Peters
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
— Ellis Peters
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
Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly.
— Ellis Peters
The success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.
— Ellis Peters
Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
— Ellis Peters
And are you thinking, Hugh, what I am thinking?
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Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.
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Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
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What you do and what you are is what matters.
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There's an art in every labour.
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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
You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
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