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“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
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“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“Kneel not to me.
The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you;
The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,
And deal with others better.”
― Cymbeline
The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you;
The malice towards you to forgive you. Live,
And deal with others better.”
― Cymbeline
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