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If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
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 do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
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Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
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