"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
-George MacDonald
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"Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.“
-George MacDonald
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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 principle part of faith is patience."
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"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life."
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"Attitudes are more important than facts."
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"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."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
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