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I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
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Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.
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By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
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Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.
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Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.
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A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
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Those that hope little cannot grow much.
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A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God.
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