"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow……" — C.S. Lewis
"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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More Aching Quotes
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
— Rudyard Kipling
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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
— George Washington
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Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get…
— Charlie Chaplin
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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you…
— Joseph Conrad
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
— Natalie Goldberg
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind,…
— Joseph Lyons
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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can…
— John Tukey
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
— Thomas Gray
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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…
— Ruth Pitter
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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by…
— Ed Kashi
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
— David Berlinski
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within…
— William Hazlitt
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