It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

George MacDonald
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  3. We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. - Alan Turing

  4. ..[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody... - Karl Marx

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More Quotes By George MacDonald
  1. All that is not God is death.

  2. I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

  3. If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

  4. One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in...

  5. Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming...

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