James Russell Lowell Quotes
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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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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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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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This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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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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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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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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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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Fate loves the fearless.
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Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
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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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To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.
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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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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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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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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,But surely God endures forever.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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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.