It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved.
More Quotes from George MacDonald:
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.George MacDonald
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
George MacDonald
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald
Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.
George MacDonald
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George MacDonald
Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.
George MacDonald
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