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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

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Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
Historian
Journalist
Poet
Politician
Writer
La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
Sun
Loss
Dying
Shines
Fall
Falls
Death
Simplicity
Life
Possession
Shining
Shadow

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If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
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I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.
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There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
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Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.
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The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.
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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
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[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
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We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.
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In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
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The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.
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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery there is no third course.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
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The grace of God is courtesy.
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Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
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