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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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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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Ye come and go incessant we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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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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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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