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Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
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We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, he said. Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
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But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.
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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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Marriage is a very long process.
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He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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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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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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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
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She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.
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to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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The elements were seeking each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
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This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.
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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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I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.
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I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.
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