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User ID: 77076820 United States 11/21/2018 03:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! -- how consoling in the depths of affliction! "And this, too, shall pass away." And yet let us hope it is not quite true. Let us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social, and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away. -Abe Lincoln Seagull Lake |
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User ID: 77076820 United States 11/21/2018 03:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: This Too Shall Pass Away Have always loved his understanding of this timeless maxim. And, his hope, his fragile hope, for America’s chances against the unstoppable juggernaut of change. Seagull Lake |