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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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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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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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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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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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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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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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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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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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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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.
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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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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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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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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,In whatso we share with another's need,-Not that which we give, but what we share,-For the gift without the giver is bare;Who bestows himself with his alms feeds three,-Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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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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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.