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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.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Wells
Somerset
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge
Elisabeth Goudge
Imagination
Deceive
Comes
Striking
Light
Lifting
Really
Deceiving
Like
Closed
Gift
Outside
Vision
Eyelids

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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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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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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
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Marriage is a very long process.
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The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.
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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
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In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.
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There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
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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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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
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I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.
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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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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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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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...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.
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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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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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Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.
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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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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.
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