"She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing."

Morality, Gratitude, Humility, Kindness, Respect

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"She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Sacrifice, Conflict, Ethics

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

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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."

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"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

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"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."

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"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Explore more quotes by George MacDonald

"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

"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."

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."

"We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well."

"Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."