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C. S. Lewis
Irish
Author
Born:
Nov 29
,
1898
Died:
Nov 22
,
1963
God
Man
People
Will
World
You
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Future
Time
Whatever
Everyone
Minutes
Rate
Something
He
Hour
Does
Which
Whoever
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis
Word
Promises
Long
Direct
Implement
Always
Plain
Prefer
Them
Keep
Vague
Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.
C. S. Lewis
Prayer
Church
Example
Vice Versa
Teeth
Say
Solemnity
Proper
Outside
For Example
Does
Versa
Vice
While
Mean
Should
Wash
Washing
Things
Necessarily
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis
Struggle
Logical
Enemies
Own
Imbeciles
Side
Our
Criminals
Backing
Only
Prevent
Beasts
Simply
Because
Existence
Up
Same
Cannot
Cut
Us
Capitalists
Reasons
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
Truth
Reflect
Think
Imagination
Way
All Things
Least
Heavenly
Things
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
Adversity
Prosperity
Weather
Long
Devil
Monotonous
Excellent
Years
Dull
Campaigning
Middle-Aged
Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
C. S. Lewis
Me
Joy
Prosperity
Unlike
Security
Seems
Almost
Real
Agony
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis
Me
Age
Strange
Thirty
Fact
Adult
Had
Come
Terms
Talking
Am
Walking
Really
Now
I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis
Glasses
Reading
Wear
Rather
Voice
Bald
Tall
Deep
Fat
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
Great
Age
Old
Old Age
Prolonged
How
Replete
Which
Incessant
Ills
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