James Russell Lowell Quotes
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New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth;They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of TruthLo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be,Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea,Nor attempt the Future’s portal with the Past’s blood-rusted key.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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It is the tendency of all creeds, opinions, and political dogmas that have once defined themselves in institutions to become inoperative.
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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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From lower to the higher next,Not to the top, is Nature’s text;And embryo Good, to reach full stature,Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust,Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just;Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside,Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
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Be noble! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Not only around our infancyDoth heaven with all its splendors lie;Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,We Sinais climb and know it not.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.