Vera Brittain Quotes
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
Vera Brittain
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Raymond Carver
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
Thomas Hobbes
In the end, we know God as unknown.
Thomas Aquinas
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
Vera Brittain
