Top 25 Ethel Lilian Voynich Quotes

#1. I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't want me to know a thing.

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#2. The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once

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#3. If you have found the way of sacrifice, the way that leads to peace; if you have joined with loving comrades to bring deliverance to them that weep and mourn in secret; then see to it that your soul be free from envy and passion and your heart as an altar where the sacred fire burns eternally.

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#4. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father

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#5. If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.

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#6. It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you

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#7. I dare say you will think it an absurd prejudice; but a human body, to me, is a sacred thing; I don't like to see it treated irreverently and made hideous.

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#8. I quite agree with you that it is detestably malicious. But the worst thing about it is that it's all true.

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#9. Remember what your own Shelley says: 'The past is Death's, the future is thine own.' Take it, while it is still yours, and fix your mind, not on what you may have done long ago to hurt, but on what you can do now to help.

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#10. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.

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#11. I have only one offering to give, a broken heart.

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#12. There is no case which calls for injustice; and to condemn a civilian by the judgment of a secret military tribunal is both unjust and illegal.

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#13. Most of us are degraded in one way or another.

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#14. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows

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#15. Would you have me wait till my grave opens of itself to swallow me up?

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#16. In this month he had been too happy to sin much

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#17. They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire?

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#18. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.

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#19. The disease itself is what is called a religious attitude of mind.

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#20. As a literary composition, it is utterly worthless, and could be admired only by persons who know nothing about literature. As for its giving offence, that is the very thing I intended it to do.

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#21. A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that.

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#22. The hand of the Lord is heavy.

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#23. We are all fit for better things than we ever do

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#24. Do you think you didn't hurt the man you killed?

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#25. We always understood each other without many words, even when we were little things.

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