Margaret Barber Quotes

Margaret Fairless Barber , pseudonym Michael Fairless, was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender became a popular classic. Wikipedia

✵ 7. May 1869 – 24. August 1901

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Famous Margaret Barber Quotes

“What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.”

Margaret Barber book The Roadmender

Source: The Roadmender (1902), Chapter II

“Man—vir, woman—femina, go to make up the man—homo. There can be no comparison, no rivalry between them; they are the complement of each other, and a little child shall lead them.”

Margaret Barber book The Roadmender

Source: The Roadmender (1902), Chapter III

“We can never be too Pagan when we are truly Christian, and the old myths are eternal truths held fast in the Church’s net.”

Margaret Barber book The Roadmender

Source: The Roadmender (1902), Chapter II

“Man—vir, woman—femina, go to make up the man—homo.”

Margaret Barber book The Roadmender

There can be no comparison, no rivalry between them; they are the complement of each other, and a little child shall lead them.
Source: The Roadmender (1902), Chapter III

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