Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C.S. Lewis in Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

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Indeed the Friendship may be "about" almost nothing except the fact that it excludes.

C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C.S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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