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Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern. She is well known for her medieval-detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.

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In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

Pay The Price, Regret, Right, Shame, Simple, Stand

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Deadly, Despair, Folly, Sin

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Common, Coward, Cowards, Expectations, Hero, Heroes

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

Brother, Elbows, Eternity, Soul, Souls

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Mountain, Mountains, Today, Tomorrow

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

Bitter, Concluded, May, Substitutes, Though, Truth

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Away, Enemies, Enemy, Give, Giving Up, People

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

Against, Hate, Odds, Reason

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Costly, Master, Masters, Problem, Simplifies, Truth Is

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

Bulb, Deeply, Light, Sown, Truth, Way

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Man, Men, Unless, Use, Wit, Wits

Integrity expects integrity.

Expects, Integrity

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Having, May, Retrospect, Saint, Take

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Christian, Christians, Known, Saracens

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [. . . ] The silence, it might be. . . or the stillness. To have no more running to do. . . to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Back, Beautiful, Changes, Running, Thing, Thinking

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Deaf, Ears, Talking, Usual, Voice, Voices

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!

News, World, Ill, Reports, Arrive

Every man has within him only one life and one nature. . . It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

Dedication, Freely, Giving, Man, Men, Questioning

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Ends, Fall, Falls, Paid, Price, Short

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Benefits, Gratification, Nothing, Receiving, Religion, Sense

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