“There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light
Shone over hill and dale
When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed
Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle.
Heart as pure as forest lily
Never knowing guile,
Had its home within the bosom
Of sweet Lily Lyle.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could see some of these. But mere seeing from a distance did not satisfy her; she longed to go alone far into the fields and hear the birds singing, the brooks tinkling, and the wind rustling through the corn, as she had when a child. To smell things and touch things, warm earth and flowers and grasses, and to stand and gaze where no one could see her, drinking it all in.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“No, I be-ant expectin' nothin', but I be so yarnin”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“to make up in an hour for all their wasted yesterdays.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“Many of the great eaters grew very stout in later life; but this caused them no uneasiness; they regarded their [Pg 390] expanding girth as proper to middle age. Thin people were not admired. However cheerful and energetic they might appear, they were suspected of 'fretting away their fat' and warned that they were fast becoming 'walking miseries'.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“There is something exhilarating about pay-day, even when the pay is poor and already mortgaged for necessities. With”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
“Traditions and customs which had lasted for centuries did not die out in a moment.”
― Flora Thompson, quote from Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson
Born place: in Juniper Hill, Oxfordshire, The United Kingdom
Born date December 5, 1876
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“Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!
Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath!”
― Emily Dickinson, quote from Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems
“A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.”
― A.S. Byatt, quote from The Virgin in the Garden
“С той поры я уж и знал, что если страшно от сильного пожара, то надобно бежать туда и работать, и вовсе не будет страшно. Кто работает, тому некогда ни пугаться, ни чувствовать отвращение или брезгливость.”
― Nikolai Chernyshevsky, quote from What Is to Be Done?
“How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, quote from Westmark
“shrink." (D&C 19:18.) It was about there that I wrote these words: "Teach the people repentance hurts." You must never believe the lie that there is no pain from sin. You can be forgiven; the Atonement is real. But President Kimball taught that "if a person hasn't suffered, he hasn't repented." (The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, ed. Edward L. Kimball [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982], p. 99.) So true faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ, rather than leading you to try a little sin, will lead you to stay as far away from it as you can. That brings”
― Henry B. Eyring, quote from To Draw Closer To God: A Collection Of Discourses
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