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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Forgiveness Giving Life Receiving

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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Amusement Deep Inch Live Mud Then Water You

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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Best Best Work Exhaustion God He Must Our Prefer Quality Quantity Think Wants Work I Think

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Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Afflictions God Shadows Wings

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The principle part of faith is patience.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Faith Part Patience Principle

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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Age Bursts Decay Fresh Life Within

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I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

~George Macdonald

Topics: About Doing Find God His Leaves Me No Time Plans Time Will

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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Better Better Man Gate Kingdom Man Many Miles Nearer Than Thief

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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Angels Cast Even Flower Friend Gem Gift Give Giving Heart Instead Loving Should Thought Would

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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

~George Macdonald

Topics: Able Power Riches Want Without

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 10th, 1824

Died: September 18th, 1905

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