Lyman Abbott Quotes

• It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

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• I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

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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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• 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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• The highest qualities of character… must be earned.

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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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• 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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• Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

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Lyman Abbott (9)

Birth:	18th December, 1835
Death:	22nd October, 1922
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Congregationalist, Editor, Theologian

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