"It is good to dress in fair clothes……" — Alison Croggon
"It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world."
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34 Quotes by Alison Croggon
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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
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It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end.
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It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference…
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Triple tongued is triple named
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I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not…
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond,…
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