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- Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
- Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
- They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,…
- In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.
- If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
- 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
- Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
- Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal…
- But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must…
- Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will…
- Little by little, one travels far
- Never laugh at live dragons.
- Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the…
- I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
- Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
- I will not walk backward in life.
- Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
- Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
- It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills,…
- It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
- How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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