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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
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O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.
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I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
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She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.
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A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
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One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
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