| A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| That best academy, a mother's knee. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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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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- James Russell Lowell |
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| Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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| All God's angels come to us disguised. |
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- James Russell Lowell |
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