Quote #8

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.

More from George MacDonald

  1. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
  2. 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 …
  3. A true friend is forever a friend.
  4. We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
  5. Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
  6. You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
  7. Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the skies as I came through.
  8. The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.

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