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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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Cambridge
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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