Quote #9
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 the event.
More from George MacDonald
- We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.
- We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
- To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
- You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.
- A true friend is forever a friend.
- The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt, In that fear doubteth thee.
- Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.
- The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things to think about, but to wake things u…