"The voices of cold reason were talking, as……" — Ellis Peters
"The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears."
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Ellis Peters
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24 Quotes by Ellis Peters
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is…
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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What are wits for unless a man uses them?
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in…
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
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Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was…
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Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
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I love cold, rainy weather.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
— John Betjeman
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