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Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!
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I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.
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Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254
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So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?
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The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand.
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God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.
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Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.
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If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?""Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
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Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.
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