James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
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"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."
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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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"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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"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."
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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."
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"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache."
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"Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."
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"Light is the symbol of truth."
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."
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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."
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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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"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."
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"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
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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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"Not failure, but low aim, is crime."
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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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"Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne."
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"The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen."
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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!"
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