It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over over any soul be loved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.


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I am always hearing. . . the sound of a far off song. I do not exactly know where it is, or what it ...
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All that is not God is death.
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The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
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Obedience is the opener of eyes.
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She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...
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She had turned thought and feeling into life, into reality, into creation. They speak of the _creati...
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punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification
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Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
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Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks ...
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She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down...
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there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your ma...
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We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else,...
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The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour goo...
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Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is ...
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The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty...
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As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleas...
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Past tears are present strength.
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My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mi...
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One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have ...
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Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.
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If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injur...
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It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
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I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold u...
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My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
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We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because ...
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It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be t...
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And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but coul...
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Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
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Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
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I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five...
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Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible foun...
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To try to be brave is to be brave.
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The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
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In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’
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It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had b...
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...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness ...
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It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.
GEORGE MACDONALD
Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.
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You had better not open that door.
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Godfrey and Hesper made a glorious pair to look at--but would theirs be a happy union?--Happy, I dar...
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Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
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Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of t...
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We're looking into conserving landfill space. We're looking to generate energy without relying on fo...
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Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cul...
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Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty
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God’s finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.
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The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission
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It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing
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Where did you get your eyes so blue? / Out of the sky as I came through.
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The two pillars of political correctness is willful ignorance and the steadfast refusal to face the ...
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It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when to-morrow’s bu...
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We've done a better job at getting more complete representation.
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Where did you come from, baby dear? / Out of the everywhere into here.
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The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty th...
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To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved
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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by th...
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Seeing is not believing, it is only seeing,”
George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
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The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
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Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones ...
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It is not at all a fit place for you," said Clementina.

"Gently, my lady. It is a ...
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Mary was one who possessed power over her own spirit--rare gift, given to none but those who do some...
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Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes
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Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth wit...
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