James Russell Lowell
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“Every person born into this world their work is born with them.” -James Russell Lowell
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“On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.” -James Russell Lowell
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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.” -James Russell Lowell
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“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.” -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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“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” -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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“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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“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.” -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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“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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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.” -James Russell Lowell
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“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” -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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“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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“Freedom is the only law which genius knows.” -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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” -James Russell Lowell
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. – James Russell Lowell
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