George MacDonald Short Quotes

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You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

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Said the Wind to the Moon, "I will blow you out!"

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Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach.

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

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The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

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I only know when I don't know a thing.... wisdom lies in that.

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All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.

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Better to have the poet's heart than brain,
Feeling than song.

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I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

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You would not think any duty small,
If you yourself were great.

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There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

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And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay.

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The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt,
In that fear doubteth thee.

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The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

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Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

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A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

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But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

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The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

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Facts are like faces - capable of a thousand expressions and meanings.

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Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

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There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.

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There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

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As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

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Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

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Only because uplifted in song, was I able to endure the blaze of the dawn.

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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

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