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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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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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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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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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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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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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