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"Nobody has a right to say that anything might have been other than what has been. Before a thing has happened, we can say might or might not, but that has to do only with our ignorance. Think what a change, from the dark night and roaring water, to this fullness of sunlight and the bare sands with the water lisping on their edge away there in the distance. Now, troubles will come in life which look as if they would never pass away, just as the night and the storm look as if they would last forever. But the calm and the morning cannot be stayed, and the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of Nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is peace."

--George MacDonald from The Parish Papers