"Excess of love, did ye say? There was……" — C.S. Lewis
"Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
— Rumi
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure;…
— Mark Twain
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