James Russell Lowell Quotes
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;We are happy now because God wills it.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.
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The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snowNot whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
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Of my meritOn thet pint you yourself may jedge;All is, I never drink no sperit,Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
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She thought no v'ice hed sech a swingEz hisn in the choir;My! when he made Ole Hunderd ringShe knowed the Lord was nigher.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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In life's small things be resolute and greatTo keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when FateThy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,'I find thee worthy; do this deed for me'?
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.
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The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.
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Ef you take a sword an’ dror it,An’ go stick a feller thru,Guv’mint ain’t to answer for it,God’ll send the bill to you.
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Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, - One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
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Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.