"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Epic Quotes #Soul Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Wowers never speede well, that have a false harte.”

Source : Nicholas Udall (1847). “Ralph Roister Doister: A Comedy. ¬The Tragedie of Gorboduc”, p.11
“Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.”

Source : Dutch art-magazine: 'Eenheid' no. 283, November 6, 1915.
“Hair brings oneâ€™s self-image into focus; it is vanityâ€™s proving ground.Â Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices”
“Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.”
“White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.”
“Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2007). “The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour”, p.64, University of Michigan Press
“At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.”
“I don't know why people thought I was retiring.”

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