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- The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
- We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so…
- And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing…
- Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from…
- There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military…
- Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made…
- My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only…
- For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there…
- War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its…
- We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true…
- A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
- His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose…
- That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place…
- The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
- But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not…
- Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and…
- There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty…
- You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
- It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
- Saruman," I said, standing away from him, "only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not…
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