George MacDonald Quotes
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
[Trust]
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
[Able]
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.
[Providence]
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Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
[Patience]
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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
[One Day]
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When a man argues for victory and not for truth, he is sure of just one ally, that is the devil. - Not the defeat of the intellect, but the acceptance of the heart is the only true object in fighting with the sword of the spirit.
[Argument]
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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
[Age]
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Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
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