The Druid (The Dawning of Muirwood, #1)

by Jeff Wheeler

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

There are many lessons to be learned in suffering. We would never learn to be brave if all evils were removed by the asking.

“It is more honorable, my dear, to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”

life.” Knowledge is always a sword with two edges. It cuts away falsehood but reveals hypocrisy. Too much truth can lead to heresy.

But he lies without speaking by letting the world believe he is who they think him to be.

Fire can bake a loaf of bread or destroy a mound of hay. The difference is in how it is tended.

Man is to man either angel or wolf. From my experience, it is more often wolf. Savage, cunning, constantly preying on the weak, the aged, the sick in order to cull the herd. But some people are angels who strengthen the weak, visit and honor the aged, and heal the sick.

Sooner or later, little sister, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

They are greedy, selfish creatures interested only in proving they are better than other men. A woman who shows interest is

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prize to be won. But they are rarely satisfied once a conquest is made. They’ll seek another. It is fear that drives them, and hate—but usu...

the learned, the powerful, and the strong won’t change until they have to. The humble, the meek, the patient, the persevering—they are the ones who get things done. Even a simple oak tree can bring down a wall with its roots.”

she had believed that the Medium could only be controlled by those associated with the maston order. But she’d gotten it wrong.

It was a person’s acts and intentions that drew the Medium closer.

But thought, without plan, without action, yields nothing.

But sometimes those one would least expect are born with great Gifts.

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to the circumstances of our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.