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Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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No man knows how bad he is until he has tried to be good. You can only know the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by letting it carry you.

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Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Ninety percent of all solid and lasting happiness is owed to affection.

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Clive Staples Lewis

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The human mind is incapable of inventing new values, not even a new primary color.

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Clive Staples Lewis

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We laugh at honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us.

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We have prepared men to think of the future as a promised land reached by heroes, not as something anyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do.

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Friendship does not have a survival value, but rather it is one of the things that gives value to survival.

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God whispers and speaks to the conscience through pleasure, but shouts through pain: pain is His megaphone to awaken a slumbering world.

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If you seek the truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you seek comfort, you will find neither truth nor comfort.

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The task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.

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Any fool can write in scholarly language. The true test is everyday language.

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Some politicians argue that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give them a seat in parliament.

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Clive Staples Lewis

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To see through everything is the same as not seeing at all.

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