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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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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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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.
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Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, —
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
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If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.
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It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
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Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.
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In the scales of the destinies brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Our healing is not in the storm or in the whirlwind, it is not in monarchies, or aristocracies, or democracies, but will be revealed by the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart, prompting us to a wider and wiser humanity.
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From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo Good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.
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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.
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Though old the thought and oft expressed,
'Tis his at last who says it best.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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James Russell Lowell
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Born:
February 22, 1819
Died:
August 12, 1891
(aged 72)
Bio:
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Known for:
The Biglow papers (1848)
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Among My Books (1870)
A Fable for Critics (1848)
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