“My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 9
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“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”
“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
“In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste.”
“Many indeed are the owls who know no song unlike their own hooting.”
“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go.”
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth "thrown in": aim at earth and you will get neither.”
“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know.”
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
“Taxes are an evil—a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.”
“If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact.”
“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God.”
“Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves.”
“He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled.”
“I was taken by His voice and His gestures, not by the substance of His speech.”
“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions.”
“Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.”
“The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is.”
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