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Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life. Domhnall Gleeson

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis

Christ Be True Christian Our Must Colors True Show Jesus Jesus Christ

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke

Service Construction People Will Become State Guides Instead Leaders Talents Make Instruments Auction Legislators Themselves Choose Popularity

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde

Life Worse One Thing About Only Only One Thing Talked Than Being Thing

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. C. S. Lewis

You Change Bird Fly Indefinitely Sight Bad Must Would Would-Be Hatched Remaining Jolly Like Learn Go Egg Eggs May Just Decent Being Cannot Ordinary While Turn Hard Harder Present

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde

Love Beginning Oneself Lifelong Romance To Love

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. Oscar Wilde

Memory Carry About Diary Us

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. C. S. Lewis

God Man Darkness Walls Word Worship Sun Diminish Out More Put Him Glory His Than Cell Refusing Scribbling Lunatic

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis

Truth You Will Thinking Despair Find Only Wishful Wishful Thinking Look Comfort End Begin Get May Soap In The End Either Soft

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde

Thoughts People Other Else Someone Most Opinions Passions Quotation Lives

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw

Men Fools Power Corrupt Does However Get Position

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. Laurence Sterne

Strength Solitude Mind Lean Learns Itself Gains

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis

Happiness God Peace Give Himself Because Cannot Apart Us Thing

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis

You World Decision Circle Will Long Few Living Every Enough Meet Finally Draw Those Must Followed Rather Road Roads Make Gradually Fork Where Forks After Again Centre Miles Therefore Each Nearer Two

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde

Life Other Only Tragedies Getting Wants Two

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Oscar Wilde

Funny Hope Will Terrible Suspense Last

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. C. S. Lewis

History You World Will Thought Become Think Other Those Find Since Most Read Ineffective Were Did Precisely Next Who Largely Present Present World Christians

We are all born mad. Some remain so. Samuel Beckett

Funny Mad Some Born Remain

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Bram Stoker

Dreams Blessing People Some People Fears Blessed Nothing Sweet Dreads Some How Whom Whose Lives Brings Nightly Sleep

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. C. S. Lewis

Good Tyranny Sincerely Most Oppressive May Victims

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