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And he thought then, as he always thought afterward too, that he could not decently have done anything else.
“Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
“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
“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
“It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.”
― Peace Like a River
― Peace Like a River
“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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