"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."
-George MacDonald
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"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.“
-George MacDonald
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"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."
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"To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power."
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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 proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
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