Macdonald, George (George Macdonald)

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness
-- George Macdonald

Attitudes are more important than facts.
-- George Macdonald

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
-- George Macdonald

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
-- George Macdonald

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.
-- George Macdonald

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-- George Macdonald

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

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-- George Macdonald

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

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water
-- George Macdonald

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
-- George Macdonald

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
-- George Macdonald

The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical.
-- George Macdonald

No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
-- George Macdonald

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
-- George Macdonald

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