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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters
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Ellis Peters
Age: 82 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 28
Died: 1995
Died: October 14
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Ellis Peters
John Redfern
Jolyon Carr
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Edith Mary Pargeter
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Integrity expects integrity.
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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
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I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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Beauty is a perilous gift.
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham? Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
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Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
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To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
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I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
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I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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