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Lessons Quotes - Page 3

From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.

"Facundo Cabral, Folk Singer Shot And Killed In Guatemala" by Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.

Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae homilecticae: or discourses (principally in the form of skeletons) now first digested into one continued series, and forming a commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament; to which is annezed an improved edition of a translation of Claude's essay on the composition of a sermon...”, p.352

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.253, UPNE

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.190, ACP Press

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Joseph Jacobs (1896). “Jewish Ideals: And Other Essays”