More from George MacDonald

  1. Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
  2. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
  3. Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the skies as I came through.
  4. We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.
  5. Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here.
  6. That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is …
  7. Alas! how easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same …
  8. We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

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