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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
Perceptive
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Glad
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Life

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Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance
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What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
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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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What is the scent of water? Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
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There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.
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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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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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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
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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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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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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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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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All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.
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to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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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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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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Marriage is a very long process.
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