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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Summer, Writing, Dark

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• One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Taken, Heart

  "Generation NeXt Parenting: A Savvy Parent's Guide to Getting it Right". Book by Tricia Goyer, 2010.

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• Even yet Christ Jesus has to lie out in waste places very often, because there is no room for him in the inn--no room for him in our hearts, because of our worldliness. There is no room for him even in our politics and religion. There is no room in the inn, and we put him in the manger, and he lies outside our faith, coldly and dimly conceived by us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Jesus, Lying, Heart

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• Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It's like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Church, Evangelism, Samaritans

  Source: pneumareview.com

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• O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Thinking Of You, Feet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.224

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• New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Rip

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• The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?

  Thomas Watson

  Disappointment, Home, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.78, Scripture Truth

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• For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

  Henry Miller

  Dog, Travel, Cat

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• This song of mine
  Is a song of the vine
  To be sung by the glowing embers
  Of wayside inns,
  When the rain begins
  To darken the drear Novembers. and
  For the richest and best
  Is the wind of the West
  That grows by the Beautiful River;
  Whose sweet perfume
  Fills all the room
  With a bension on the giver. and
  When you ask one friend to dine,
  Give hime your best wine!
  When you ask two,
  The second best will do.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Journey, House, World

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.10, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Ambition, Sleep

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• I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Fun, Holiday, Sadness

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• All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.

  William Cowper Prime

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.187

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• Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
  Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
  Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
  Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired,
  Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
  And news much older than their ale went round.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Eye, Nuts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Written Expressly for this Edition”, p.100

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• The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

  Martha Grimes

  Memories, Romance, England

  Martha Grimes (2013). “The Man with a Load of Mischief”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Real, Home, Holiday

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• We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Christian, Wise, Journey

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.314

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• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  Gail Simmons

  Swimming, Rivers, Tree

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• It isnt only fictional heroes to whom toast means home and comfort. It is related of the Duke of Wellington - I believe by Lord Ellesmere - that when he landed at Dover in 1814, after six years absence from England, the first order he gave at the Ship Inn was for an unlimited supply of buttered toast.

  Elizabeth David

  Believe, Hero, Mean

  Elizabeth David (2011). “A Taste of the Sun”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

  Laurie R. King

  Jamaica, Wife, Bedroom

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• I used to stay at my hotel... I remember looking out of the window once and I saw (GB boxers) Tom Stalker and Kal Yafai skipping out of the Premier Inn and they jumped into a Range Rover to go to training.

  Anthony Joshua

  Training, Boxers, Saws

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I shall desire and I shall find
  The best of my desires;
  The autumn road, the mellow wind
  That soothes the darkening shires.
  And laughter, and inn-fires.

  Rupert Brooke

  Laughter, Autumn, Fire

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

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• I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Quitting

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• There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

  William Henry Hudson

  Dragons, White, World

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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