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Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
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Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge
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As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.
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Marriage is a very long process.
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Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.
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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
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autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
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Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.
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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
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One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.
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I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.
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In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
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There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved not hated.
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Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.
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to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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