"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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The truth Fear tells is not much better than her lies.

More George MacDonald quotes
"I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it means; and I don't hear much of it, only the odour...
"the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.
"As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorro...
"Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop...


