A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is …

George MacDonald
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A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
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A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

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