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A true friend is forever a friend.

George MacDonald

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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
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In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality what men call death is but a shadow.
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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
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Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
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Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.
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In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
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For the bliss of the animals lies in this, that, on their lower level, they shadow the bliss of those--few at any moment on the earth--who do not 'look before and after, and pine for what is not,' but live in the holy carelessness of the eternal now.
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Love makes everything lovely hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
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No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
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We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.
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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.
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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.
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Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.
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Truth is truth, whether from the lips of Jesus or Balaam.
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