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Lilith quotes

George MacDonald

English (24)

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“We are often unable to tell people what they NEED to know, because they WANT to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“No one who will not sleep can ever wake.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Doubt . . . may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Thou doubtest because thou lovest the truth.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“If you know you are yourself, you know that you are not somebody else; but do you know that you are yourself?” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“There is no slave but the creature that wills against its creator.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“The part of philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Only by the reflex of other lives can he ripen his specialty, develop the idea of himself, the individuality that distinguishes him from every other.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“I saw now that a man alone is but a being that may become a man—that he is but a need, and therefore a possibility.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“To be or not to be, is NOT the question!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates. Once with his father, he is to himself of no more account.” George MacDonald, Lilith
“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.” George MacDonald, Lilith

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