Inspirational Quotes by George MacDonald
“OPHELIA There’s fennel for you, and columbines. 176 There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me. We may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. You must wear your rue 178 with a difference. There’s a daisy. I would give you 179 some violets, but they withered all when my father 180 died. They say a made a good end. [Sings.] For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. LAERTES Thought and afflictions, passion, hell itself, 183 She turns to favor and to prettiness. OPHELIA Song. And will a not come again? And will a not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy deathbed; He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow, 190 Flaxen was his poll. He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan. God ’a’ mercy on his soul.”
“Seem,” mother? No, it is. I don’t know what you mean by “seem.” Neither my black clothes, my dear mother, nor my heavy sighs, nor my weeping, nor my downcast eyes, nor any other display of grief can show what I really feel. It’s true that all these things “seem” like grief, since a person could use them to fake grief if he wanted to. But I’ve got more real grief inside me that you could ever see on the surface. These clothes are just a hint of it.”
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“А я, Тупой и вялодушный парень, мямлю, Как ротозей, своей же правде чуждый, И ничего сказать не в силах…”
“O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limèd soul that, struggling to be free, Art more engaged! Help, angels. Make assay. Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe.”
“Imperious36 Cæsar, dead and turn’d to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”
“Kötü işler gömülse de yerin dibine Çıkar bir gün insanların gözü önüne.”
“A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process4 of my death Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown.”
“If an ox is a ox to his master, his mangers will stay near the king's table.”
“Olmaz öyle şey, Tanrı esirgesin, insan gibi davranmak yeter. Herkese layığına göre davranacak olursan kim kırbaçtan kurtulabilir ki? Onlara kendi şeref ve payenize göre davranın; ne kadar azına değseler de o kadar fazla vermek sizin ihsanınızdır.”
“Herkese kulağını ver, sesini verme Herkese akıl danış, kendi aklını sakla.”
“.... няма нищо, добро или лошо, което да не е направено такова от нашето мислене.”
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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
MacDonald grew up influenced by his Congregational Church, with an atmosphere of Calvinism. But MacDonald never felt comfortable with some aspects of Calvinist doctrine; indeed, legend has it that when the doctrine of predestination was first explained to him, he burst into tears (although assured that he was one of the elect). Later novels, such as Robert Falconer and Lilith, show a distaste for the idea that God's electing love is limited to some and denied to others.