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“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress