If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.
Patience is passion tamed. - Lyman Abbott
Patience is passion tamed.
- 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…
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.
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 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.
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…
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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