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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Death Fear Frightened How Never Strange Sunset

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Being Compliment Greater Loved Than Trusted

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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.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Beast Being Does Gets He Know Knows Less Man Nearer

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Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Delights Equal Few Presence Trust Utterly Whom

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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.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Because Best Does Finds Get Give God Hard He Man Take Want Wants Will Would

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It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Growing He Little Man Matters May Moment Point Where Whether

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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Acceptance Deserves First First Thing Kindness Second The First Thing Thing Transmission

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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Burning Keep Lamp Oil Putting

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Appears Appreciate Assumptions Body Demon Disease Given Inner Irrational Keeping Logic Longer More Own Process Reservation Sick State Sympathize Temporary Wisdom Work

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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Best Elected Govern Men Nature Politics Should Want

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 10th, 1824

Died: September 18th, 1905

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