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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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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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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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