Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Quotes

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There is no new sorrow. We shall be called upon to bear nothing that has not been borne before.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Worry is an infirmity; there is no virtue in it. Worry is a spiritual nearsightedness; a fumbling way of looking at little things and magnifying their value.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Let us hide nothing, and we shall not be afraid of being found out.

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Time spent in being interrupted is not time lost.... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

Born: 1864

Died: 1948 (aged 84)

Bio: Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay was the first woman to earn a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. She wrote a number of books on theological topics, most of which were published in the early-1900s.

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