Hubert Butler quotes
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“Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.”
-- Hubert ButlerSource : Hubert Butler (1988). “The Children of Drancy”, Lilliput Press
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“Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.”
-- Hubert ButlerSource : Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult
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“There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?”
-- Hubert ButlerSource : Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult
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“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”
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Source : Alfred Austin, “My Winter Rose”
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Source : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”
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“Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.”
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Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor
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“For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.”