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I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

George MacDonald

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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.
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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
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