We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
“For God himself the height of feeling free
Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me.”
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Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me.”
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“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone’s been missing too long.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
“Be careful whom you choose to hate.
The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly.
Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.”
― Peace Like a River
The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly.
Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.”
― Peace Like a River
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