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wisdom art teach
Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art. C. S. Lewis
wisdom hands firsts
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. C. S. Lewis
wisdom holy-places burning
If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.' C. S. Lewis
wisdom thinking differences
In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say. C. S. Lewis
wisdom mistake imperfection
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal. C. S. Lewis
wisdom heart love-is
Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell. C. S. Lewis
wisdom absent
The absent are easily refuted. C. S. Lewis
wisdom gaps different
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't. C. S. Lewis
wisdom medicine disease
Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease? C. S. Lewis
spring training
Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind, Joe Torre
spring training veteran
Spring training doesn't matter. Stats don't matter. You take that time, especially the veteran guys, to get ready. Eric Chavez
spring winter sight
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. C. S. Lewis
spring reading impact
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to. Carl Safina
spring humble feelings
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. Bernard Barton
spring flower eye
I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday. Bernard Berenson
spring water three
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
spring night men
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow. Bill Vaughan
spring evil important
As soon as it is held that any belief, no matter what, is important for some other reason than that it is true, a whole host of evils is ready to spring up. Bertrand Russell
flowers front good paint placing porch season
Sprucing up the front porch is pretty critical. New paint is good and placing urns of flowers around the door, if the season is appropriate. Jan Popa
flowering further increase month north places seen time
Places further north haven't seen much rain. At flowering time you need to see an increase in rain. A month from now it could be a problem. Jack Scoville
flower snakes earth
What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
flower world four
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
flower grace one-day
I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
flower sky sheep
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
flower thinking littles
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
flower roots heaven
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal. C. S. Lewis
flower butterfly thinking
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was. Cecelia Ahern