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Full Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are…
- The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will…
- Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms,…
- Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from…
- Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of…
- When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air…
- It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather…
- For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
- Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and…
- Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a…
- Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us…
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It…
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
- Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort…
- Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it…
- A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
- 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…
- When we are all full we are all equal. When we are empty inside w live w insecurity and comparison.
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