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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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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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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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