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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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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Hope
Children
Love
Apostles
Preach
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Forth
Literature
Peace

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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