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I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.
Elizabeth Goudge
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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
Elisabeth Goudge
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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 perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
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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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...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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The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
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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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[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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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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To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.
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What is the scent of water? Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
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What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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