I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. - Lyman Abbott
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.
- Lyman Abbott
The artist does not really create; he discovers. - Lyman Abbott
The artist does not really create; he discovers.
The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment. - Lyman Abbott
The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected a… - Lyman Abbott
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected a…
Patience is passion tamed. - Lyman Abbott
Patience is passion tamed.
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed. - Lyman Abbott
No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot ha… - Lyman Abbott
A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot ha…
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained. - Lyman Abbott
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice - but as yet unstained.
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned. - Lyman Abbott
We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.
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