"Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs”, p.74, Open Road Media

Ellis Peters

#Giving Up Quotes #People Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.”
“We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.”
“A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.”
“When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.”
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.”
“War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.”
“It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.”
“Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.”

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