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All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the…
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons…
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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
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Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols…
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double…
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And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point…
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To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here,…
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I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.
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I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.
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There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find…
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Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he…
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I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it…
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks…
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This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers.
— James Howell
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One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.
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Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
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For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.
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On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without…
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