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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#affection #durable #happiness #lives #nine-tenths

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#another #dream #goal #never #new

No blessing lasts forever. ↗

— Plautus

#forever #lasts

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

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#aim #earth #get #heaven #neither

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

— C. S. Lewis

#because #cannot #give #god #happiness

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#every #form #point #simply #testing

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#any #been #behind #better #better things

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

— C. S. Lewis

#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely