It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
Ellis Peters
I loved and hated India; the pressures of class division and riches and poverty there are devastating, but love predominates. I have two families and scattered friends there, mainly in Delhi, but south also, and wish I had the stamina to tackle it again. Maybe I'll make it some day yet, but it does take stamina.
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It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions
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Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
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I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
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Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay. Not here - not now.
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Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
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Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity of all pities that those who lead never learn, and the few wise men among those who follow never quite avail to teach. But faith given and allegiance pledged are stronger than fear..
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Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
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Every man has within him only one life and one nature.. It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.
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God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
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The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.
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