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Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.
Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.
Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.
If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.
A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.
You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.
Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.