James Russell Lowell Quotes
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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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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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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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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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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 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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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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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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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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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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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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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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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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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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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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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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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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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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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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Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
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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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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.