Learning From Abraham Lincoln's Struggles

[RJNorton]

(05-28-2021 07:24 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Very good post Gene. I would like to take the liberty to add to the list. I believe he told the story of a wise man who voiced the wisdom: “This too shall pass.” I think Lincoln himself subscribed to that.

"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!"

SOURCE: The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin" (September 30, 1859), pp. 481-482.