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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
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I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the nor... NICHOLSON BAKER We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should tak... LUKASZ LANIECKI We talked about the fact that they are a pattern offense and they like to shoot the 3 and we just le... DAN DEROSE I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel l... JOHN DENVER People like to feel they are buying of their own good judgment as a result of the information the sa... PAUL PARKER The secondary infections are why some people who have a cold and after a couple of days still feel b... DR. LYNDON MANSFIELD When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You wa... VIRONIKA TUGALEVA When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You wa... 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CALVERLEY through crucifixion only the resurrection is possible BASIL C S Get out, you blazing ass! / Gabble o' the goose. Don't bugaboo-baby me! C. S. CALVERLEY The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization BASIL C S And this song is considered a perfect gem, / And as to the meaning, it's what you please. C. S. CALVERLEY through crucifixion only the resurrection is possible BASIL C S Eugene Aram, though a thief, a liar, and a murderer, / Yet, being intellectual, was amongst the nobl... C. S. CALVERLEY There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. C. S. ROBINSON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together l... C. S. FORESTER A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford... C. S. FORESTER There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines. C. S. FORESTER I must mention again it was gorgeous weather, / Rhymes are so scarce in this world of ours. C. S. CALVERLEY Meaning, however, is no great matter. C. S. CALVERLEY Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals. C. S. CALVERLEY If Love is not powerful , what else is .......!!! BASIL C S Age is not the count of wisdom BASIL C S Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. C. S. FORESTER There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. C. S. FORESTER True love makes the imperfect to perfect .... otherwise love is not true..... BASIL C S There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. C S ROBINSON Life is with such all beer and skittles; / They are not difficult to please / About their victuals. C. S. CALVERLEY I cannot sing the old songs now! / It is not that I deem them low; / 'Tis that I can't remember how ... C. S. CALVERLEY