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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

What about the creative state? In it a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

WHAT DRAWS PEOPLE TO BE FRIENDS IS THAT THEY SEE THE SAME TRUTH. THEY SHARE IT.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH ADVERBS.

A louse in the locks of literature.

 

God-gifted organ-voice of England,