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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. (C. S. Lewis)
Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. View quote
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. View quote
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity. View quote
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All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. View quote
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Milton was right," said my Teacher. "The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery. View quote
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. View quote
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. View quote
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. View quote
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. View quote
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. (C. S. Lewis)
Die before you die, there is no chance after. View quote
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We read to know we are not alone. View quote
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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. View quote
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If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. View quote
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. View quote
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Nothing is yet in its true form. View quote
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The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity. View quote
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Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. View quote
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. View quote
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method. (C. S. Lewis)
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary. View quote
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Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? View quote
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Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up. View quote
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I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. View quote
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