Quote Round-up

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

–John Burroughs

Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things– ignorance, alcohol, passion, presumption and stupidity.
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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it’s not the sort of comfort they supply there.

–C.S. Lewis

How great the illusion that beauty is goodness

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down… If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him.

–Edna St. Vincent Millay

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It’s not that I believe in miracles – I depend on them.

–Anne Lamott

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

G.K. Chesterton

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