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Religious literature4 quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis · 1942The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Political literature2 quotes
The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. — James Bryce · 1888Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men. — James Bryce · 1888Philosophical literature1 quote
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944