James Russell Lowell Quotes
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Ez to my princerples, I gloryIn hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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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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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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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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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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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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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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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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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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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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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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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
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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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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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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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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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The wisest man could ask no more of FateThan to be simple, modest, manly, true,Safe from the Many - honored by the Few;To count as naught in World or Church or State;But inwardly in secret to be great.