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Not as we wanted it,
But as God granted it.

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

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Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

All the old statues of Victory have wings: but Grief has no wings. She is the unwelcome lodger that squats on the hearthstone between us and the fire and will not move or be dislodged.

O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.

Only the heel
Of splendid steel
Shall stand secure on sliding fate,
When golden navies weep their freight.

O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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