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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Thomas à Kempis
    “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
    Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

  • #8
    Thomas à Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
    Thomas a Kempis

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “Angry people are not always wise.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
    Jane Austen

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #14
    John Chrysostom
    “[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.”
    John Chrysostom

  • #15
    John Chrysostom
    “Sin is followed by shame. Repentance is followed by boldness.”
    John Chrysostom

  • #16
    John Chrysostom
    “Only those who do not fight are never wounded.”
    John Chrysostom

  • #17
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    Plato

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #19
    Thomas à Kempis
    “If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
    Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “Irony is wasted on the stupid”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #22
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.”
    G. K. Chesterton

  • #23
    Thomas à Kempis
    “It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.”
    Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain



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