QUOTES by George MacDonald
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"There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!"
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"No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one who, like Christ, cares first for the will of the Father."
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"...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."
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"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."
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"If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise."
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"But he remembered that even if she did box his ears, he musn't box hers again, for she was a girl, and all that boys must do, if girls are rude, is to go away and leave them."
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"Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for all the world to win. George MacDonald, (Lilith)"
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"One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ..."
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"Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity."
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"But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what he can."
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"How kind you are, North Wind!' 'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it."
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"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."
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"I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking."
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"You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings"
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"But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you?"
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"What does it all mean?' I said. 'A good question,' he rejoined: 'nobody knows what anything is; a man can learn only what a thing means. Whether he do, depends on the use he is making of it."
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"Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel."
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"…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;"
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"I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence."
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"Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!"
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"But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be."
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"There is no way of making three men right but by making right each one of the three; but a cure in one man who repents and turns, is a beginning of the cure of the whole human race."
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"A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician."
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"His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs."
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"Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence."
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"Then the great old, young, beautiful princess turned to Curdie. 'Now, Curdie, are you ready?' she said. 'Yes ma'am,' answered Curdie. 'You do not know what for.' 'You do, ma'am. That is enough."
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"I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my eyes, but the unseen filled my brain."
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"Let death do what it can, there is just one thing it cannot destroy, and that is life. Never in itself, only in the unfaith of man, does life recognize any sway of death."
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"But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings."
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"It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others."
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"He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined."
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"It is as necessary for a poor man to give away, as for a rich man. Many poor men are more devoted worshipers of Mammon than some rich men."
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"All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words."
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"There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing."
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"The man who grounds his action on another's cowardice, is essentially a coward himself."
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"If man could do what in his wildest self-worship he can imagine, the grand result would be that he would be his own God, which is the Hell of Hells."
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"Sorrow herself will reveal one day that she was only the beneficent shadow of Joy. Will Evil ever show herself the beneficent shadow of Good?"
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"Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die."
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"Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it."
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