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‘As I am grieved by sin, sir. I do not feel disdain for the wicked, only dreadful sorrow. How can the poor know any better, left as they are to wallow in ignorance, intoxication and vice?’ ‘What would you have ’em do?’ Philpott was
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“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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“Finally, words cannot speak of music; they cannot elucidate nor illuminate. Both sounds enter through the ears, but only music travels throughout and animates the whole body. David Bowie has always known this.”
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“She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.”
― Diary of a Provincial Lady
― Diary of a Provincial Lady
“The purpose of his life, death, and resurrection was to ransom you from your sin, deliver you from the clutches of evil, restore you to God - so that his personality and his life could heal and fill your personality. Your humanity, and your life. This is the reason he came.
Anything else is religion.”
― Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
Anything else is religion.”
― Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
“Everybody was asleep. Everybody except me, James Herriot, creeping sore and exhausted towards another spell of hard labour. Why the hell had I ever decided to become a country vet? I must have been crazy to pick a job where you worked seven days a week and through the night as well. Sometimes I felt as though the practice was a malignant, living entity; testing me, trying me out; putting the pressure on more and more to see just when at what point I would drop down dead.”
― All Creatures Great and Small
― All Creatures Great and Small
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