"To pursue joy is to lose it. The……" — Alexander MacLaren
"To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty."
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62 Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
Alexander MacLaren has 62 quotes on this site.
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
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All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he…
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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land,…
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Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
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Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a…
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We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we…
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The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the…
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In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the…
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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