"Courage is caution overcome."

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Source : Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

Lyman Abbott

#Courage Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Caution Quotes

“There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody elseÂ¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.”
“The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.”
“The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.”
“Because, if you ever been in the state pennitentary, you understand if you're not in something, then you stay out of it, you know and that's how I do.That's a easy way to stay out of it!”
“The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.”
“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”
“Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.”
“Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.”

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