Patience is passion tamed.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Lyman Abbott
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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Life
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Life
The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
Wisdom
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.
Wisdom
I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.
Wisdom
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.
Wisdom
Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.
Wisdom