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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you—in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you—in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought.
Approximate author period: c. 1864 AD · industrial
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- George Macdonald
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- Approximate author period: c. 1864 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for George MacDonald: life dates 1824 to 1905. Wikidata Q368519, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q368519 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 235; printed byline: George Macdonald; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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