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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald
Life
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
Men
Nature
Politics
Want
The principle part of faith is patience.
George MacDonald
Faith
Patience
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
George MacDonald
Work
Sympathy
World
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald
Being
Compliment
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
Wisdom
Work
Body
Disease
Logic
State
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
Duty
Future
Preparation
Present
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
Man
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
God
Man
Want
Will
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
George MacDonald
Love
Eyes
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
George MacDonald
Man
May
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald
Work
Quality
God
Exhaustion
Quantity
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald
Amusement
Deep
Water
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
George MacDonald
Choice
Difficulty