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Scottish Novelist, Poet December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905

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My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in... George MacDonald
In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most powerfully; undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect. It is the nature of the thing, not the clearness of its outline, that... George MacDonald
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and the courage to believe it. What we call evil, is the only and best shape, which, for the person and his condition at the time, could be assumed by the best good. And so, FAREWELL. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should..."
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
George MacDonald quote: "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our..."
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. George MacDonald
What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next. George MacDonald
She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they... George MacDonald
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
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is? not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. George MacDonald
George MacDonald quote: "The best preparation for the future is the present well seen..."
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. George MacDonald

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