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Best Best Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know…
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
- Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these…
- Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems…
- And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should…
- I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly…
- All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.
- We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.
- An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a…
- The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
- Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not…
- But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of…
- The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
- Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking…
- I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is…
- You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.
- You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
- Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.
- If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do…
- We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle