Inspirational Quotes by George MacDonald
“PROLOGUE: For us and for our tragedy, Here stooping to your clemency, We beg your hearing patiently. HAMLET: Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?”
“Soy muy soberbio, ambicioso, vengativo, con más pecados sobre mi cabeza que pensamientos para concebirlos, fantasía para darles forma o tiempo para llevarlos a ejecución.”
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“GHOST I am thy father’s spirit, 14 Doomed for a certain term to walk the night 15 And for the day confined to fast in fires 16 Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature 17 Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid 18 To tell the secrets of my prison house, 19 I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 20 Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 21 Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their 22 spheres, 23 Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part, 24 And each particular hair to stand an end, 25 Like quills upon the fearful porpentine. 26 But this eternal blazon must not be 27 To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list! 28 If thou didst ever thy dear father love—”
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.”
“Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.”
“لكن ما أكثر مانزمع أمرا ثم ننقضه،والنية تدوم مابقيت عالقة بالذاكرة،وهي تولد بعنف،ولكنها واهية القوى.فتظل حينا كأثمار الفجة متشبثة بالشجرة.حتى إذا اشتد نضجها هوت،دون أن يهزها أحد.وما علينا من حرج أن ننسى الوفاء بالدين،مادمنا مدينين به لأنفسنا،والذي نعد به أنفسنا حين يشتد تحمسنا،لايكون له معنى،إذا خمدت حماستنا”
“Hay más cosas en el cielo y en la Tierra, Horacio, de las que contempla tu filosofía.”
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”
“Mogao bih biti zatvoren u orahovoj ljusci i Držati, da sam kralj beskrajnog prostora; kad samo ne Bih imao ružnih snova”
“Не вечен мир, и все мы видим вновь, Как счастью вслед меняется любовь; Кому кто служит, мудрый, назови: Любовь ли счастью, счастье ли любви?”
“For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too much: that we would do We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues,”
“...всяка обич с времето се ражда и с времето мени се и отслабва. Самият неин плам отлага пепел, нагар, от който тя мъжди и гасне, и няма вечност чувството, защото от своето разпалване доброто, подобно възпаление в гръдта, само се задушава. Онова, което някой „иска“ да направи, той „трябва“ да го прави, без да бави, защото това „искам“ има толкоз обрати, смени, колкото езици, ръце и случки има по света, и току-виж, тез само „трябва“, „трябва“ останали на нашия болник като въздишките, които уж ни носят облекчение, но всъщност ни изтощават само…”
“How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;' Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me: Witness this army of such mass and charge Led by a delicate and tender prince, Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd”
“We know what we are. but know not what we may be.”
“انظري إلى الرجل العظيم إذا هوى انفض من حوله أحبابه ،والفقير إذا ترقى انقلب أعداؤه أصدقاء”
“The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through its transparent walls the earth beneath their feet. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall. And by this time I think they must have got there.”
― George MacDonald ,
from The Golden Key
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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.