All James Russell Lowell Quotes
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.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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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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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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