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Try Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
- I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing…
- Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots…
- Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back…
- You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.
- Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who…
- We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our…
- You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
- We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
- If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.
- Imagine a set of people all living in the same building. Half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is…
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without…
- The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and…
- Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded…
- Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia. But don't go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don't try to get…
- A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
- Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us…
- Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude…
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- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- I know what its like to want to die; how it hurts to smile; how you try to fit in but you… — Superman
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams