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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

Elizabeth Goudge

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Elizabeth Goudge
Age: 83 †
Born: 1900
Born: April 24
Died: 1984
Died: April 1
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Wells
Somerset
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge
Elisabeth Goudge
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Life
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Richness

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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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Marriage is a very long process.
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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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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 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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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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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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What is the scent of water? Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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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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She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.
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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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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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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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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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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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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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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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