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Fate loves the fearless.James Russell Lowell
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.James Russell Lowell
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.James Russell Lowell
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In creating the only hard thing's to beginJames Russell Lowell
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A wise man travels to discover himself.James Russell Lowell
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.James Russell Lowell
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.James Russell Lowell
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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.James Russell Lowell
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.James Russell Lowell
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.James Russell Lowell
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.James Russell Lowell
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There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.James Russell Lowell
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!James Russell Lowell
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O visionary world condition strange Where naught abiding is but only change.James Russell Lowell
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The time is ripe and rotten-ripe for change then let it come.James Russell Lowell
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Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.James Russell Lowell
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Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.James Russell Lowell
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.James Russell Lowell
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In creating the only hard thing's to begin A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.James Russell Lowell
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Nature they say doth dote And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote.James Russell Lowell
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Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.James Russell Lowell
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Darkness is strong and so is Sin But surely God endures forever!James Russell Lowell
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide ... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.James Russell Lowell
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
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Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.James Russell Lowell
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.James Russell Lowell
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The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin' I rule) To every critter born of woman.James Russell Lowell
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Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.James Russell Lowell
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Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.James Russell Lowell
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Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.James Russell Lowell
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
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Not failure but low aim is crime.James Russell Lowell
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God'll send the bill to you.James Russell Lowell
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Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.James Russell Lowell
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.James Russell Lowell
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Let us be of good cheer remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.James Russell Lowell
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Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave.James Russell Lowell
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Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.James Russell Lowell
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.James Russell Lowell
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.James Russell Lowell
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One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.James Russell Lowell
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.James Russell Lowell
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.James Russell Lowell
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Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.James Russell Lowell
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard if he must hev beliefs not to b'lieve 'em too hard.James Russell Lowell
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.James Russell Lowell
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Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.James Russell Lowell
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himselfJames Russell Lowell
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Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.James Russell Lowell
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.James Russell Lowell
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.James Russell Lowell
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
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Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.James Russell Lowell
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Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes.James Russell Lowell
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In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.James Russell Lowell
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Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.James Russell Lowell
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.James Russell Lowell
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.... And the choice goes by forever t'wixt that darkness and that light.James Russell Lowell
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes or when she'll say to thee "I find thee worthy do this deed for me?"James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.James Russell Lowell
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Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.James Russell Lowell
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Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.James Russell Lowell
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The question of commonsense is always "what is it good for?" - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.James Russell Lowell
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Earth's noblest thing a Woman perfected.James Russell Lowell
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No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him there is always work And tools to work withal for those who will And blessed are the horny hands of toil!James Russell Lowell
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne.James Russell Lowell
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.James Russell Lowell
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.James Russell Lowell
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.James Russell Lowell
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.James Russell Lowell
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.James Russell Lowell
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.James Russell Lowell
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.James Russell Lowell
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.James Russell Lowell
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Light is the symbol of truth.James Russell Lowell
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.James Russell Lowell
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.James Russell Lowell
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.James Russell Lowell
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.James Russell Lowell
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.James Russell Lowell
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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.James Russell Lowell
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.James Russell Lowell