It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.
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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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The love of our neighbour is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescence out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostrils, instead of issuing to the fair sunlight of God, the sweet winds of the universe.
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Birth: | 10th December, 1824 |
Death: | 18th September, 1905 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
George MacDonald was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He was a Scottish novelist and poet. He wrote several novels include: The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, Lilith, The Princess and Curdie, Sir Gibbie, David Elginbrod, The Day Boy and the Night Girl, The Lost Princess, Mary Marston, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, The Gifts of the Child Christ, Alec Forbes of Howglen, and Warlock O' Glenwarlock. His poetry collection include: Within and Without, Exotics, Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems, Diary of an Old Soul, The Threefold Cord, Scotch Songs and Ballads.
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