13 Quotes by Mary Stewart about Merlin
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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
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The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
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Wait for me." It was the same farewell as always. "Wait for me. I shall come back." And as ever, I made the same reply. "What else have I to do but wait for you? I shall be here, when you come again.
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Arthur thought it better to make sure that the scattered Saxon forces could not re-form, at least while he came south for his father's burial.""He is young,"she said, "for such a charge."I smiled. "But ready for it, and more than able. Believe me, it was like seeing a young falcon take to the air, or a swan to the water.
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Count Ambrosius was out of practice at chess. The usual game was dice, and he was not risking that against an infant soothsayer. Chess, being a matter of mathematics rather than magic, was less susceptible to the black arts.' --twelve-year-old Merlin, The Crystal Cave, p. 131 of 384
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Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.
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Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…
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Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.
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Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.
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