슬픔은 인간에게 진지한 생각의 습관과 깊은 이해력, 그리고 부드러운 마음을 가져다준다. (Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding and softens the heart.)
Korean Proverb, 한국 속담
Ride of the Rohirrim
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As you perhaps know, I haven’t always been a Christian. I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
C.S. Lewis
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Corruptissma republica plumirae leges. (In the most corrupt republic, the laws are most numerous.)
Tacitus, Annales III,27
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
J.R.R. Tolkien
Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.
Joel 2:12-13
Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sin that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it in all its horror, dirt, meanness, and malice, and nevertheless being wholly reconciled to the man who has done it. That, and only that, is forgiveness, and that we can always have from God if we ask for it.
C.S. Lewis, On Forgiveness: The Weight of Glory
우둔한 사람의 마음은 입밖에 있지만, 지혜로운 사람의 입은 그의 마음속에 있다. (The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.)
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Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 