"If you would win the world, melt it,…" — Alexander MacLaren

"If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it."

— Alexander MacLaren

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62 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he…
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of…
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a…
We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we…
The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the…
In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the…

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More Hammer Quotes

This quote is filed under Hammer Quotes, one of 332 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. — Bernard Baruch
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars. — Adam Carolla
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff.… — Adam Carolla
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I… — Arthur Tappan Pierson
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan
I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this. — Drake
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly. — John Ray

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