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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

“I did not come through any door,” I rejoined.

“I saw you come through it!–saw you with my own ancient eyes!” asserted the raven, positively but not disrespectfully.

‪A man was meant to be doubtful of himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

— G.K. Chesterton

“Observe and imitate the admirable Scotch nation. They joke about their religion; but they never joke about their golf. You cannot be too solemn about golf to be a good golfer; you can be a great deal too solemn about Christianity to be a good Christian. mais 69 palavras

Give me, take from me, as thou wilt. I learn—

Slowly and stubbornly I learn to yield

With a strange hopefulness. As from the field…

To make a man happy as a lark might be to do him grievous wrong; to make a man wake, rise, look up, and turn, is worth the life and death of the Son of the Eternal.

– George MacDonald.