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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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
Massachusetts
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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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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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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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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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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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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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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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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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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