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Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes over the merely literary texts as we pass from the Middle Ages to the sixteenth century. C. S. Lewis
Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken."My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]?"There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent. Dorothy L. Sayers
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?"
Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end? Nicholas Sparks
Slowly I raise my eyes and take in the water spreading out in every direction. I can only form one clear thought. This is no place for a girl on fire. Suzanne Collins
Your edict, King, was strong, But all your strength is weakness itself against. The immortal unrecorded laws of God. They are not merely now: they were, and shall be, Operative for ever, beyond man utterly. I knew I must die, even without your decree: I am only mortal. And if I must die. Now, before it is my time to die, Surely this is no hardship: can anyone. Living, as I live, with evil all about me, Think Death less than a friend? Sophocles
Dante Alighieri quote: "The experience of this sweet life."
The experience of this sweet life. Dante Alighieri
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Jane Jacobs
Terry Prachett quote: "Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this..."
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight. Terry Prachett
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass. Simone Weil
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. Albert Hofmann
Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and... Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare quote: "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. William Shakespeare
In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their... Haruki Murakami
[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something. Mercedes Lackey
Frank Herbert quote: "A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most..."
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind. Frank Herbert

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