"Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows……" — C.S. Lewis
"Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
— Francis Bacon
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As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon
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For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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