Scottish - Novelist | December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
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The principle part of faith is patience.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
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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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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.
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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.
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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