When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … - Thornton Wilder

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I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Thornton Wilder

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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