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George MacDonald Quotes: Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.
         

Better to have the poet's heart than brain, Feeling than song.


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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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A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.



Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.



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.

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.



Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.



Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.



No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.



To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.



It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.



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





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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.



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It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.



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Given the increasing diversity among customers and employees, organizations that attend to cultural intelligence are more successful.



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In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.



So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.



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My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.



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If you don't fully take every moment and love every moment and every person that you're with, your life will be over before you realise.




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