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“As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.” quote by George MacDonald — Download Open image

“As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.”

George MacDonald

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“No revelation can be other than partial. If for true revelation a man must be told all the truth, then farewell to revelation; yea, farewell to the sonship. For what revelation, other than a partial, can the highest spiritual condition receive of the infinite God? But it is not therefore untrue because it is partial. Relatively to a lower condition…

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What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base…

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