All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses. -Alexander Maclaren

 

All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.


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Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city. -Alexander Maclaren
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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

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Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, ''No'' -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies. -Alexander Maclaren
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander Maclaren
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