American - Author | December 18, 1835 - October 22, 1922
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott
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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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Patience is passion tamed.
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
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I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
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Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
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