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Ruth Pitter has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
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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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Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.
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Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian…
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If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.
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I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty…
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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not…
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The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never…
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There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one…
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