" To live in the presence of great truths,
to be dealing with eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals --
that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him,
and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him."
that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him,
and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him."
Francis Greenwood Peabody
Author, Translator, Social Reformer,
Harvard Professor and Lecturer of Ethics and Theology
4 December 1847 - 28 December 1936
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/UIA%20Online/117peabody.html
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/Heralds/Francis-Greenwood-Peabody.php
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1508743
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