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It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.
Lyman Abbott
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Lyman Abbott
Age: 86 †
Born: 1835
Born: December 18
Died: 1922
Died: October 22
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Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, It is too late for me. Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.
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