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“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Educational #Knowledge #Understanding
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“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Giving #Charity #Philanthropy
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“Light is the symbol of truth.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Light #Literature #Spiritual Healing
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“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Life #Happiness #Success
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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Weed #Nature #Flower
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“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Wisdom #Blessed
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“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Patience #Passion #Heart
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“The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Summer #July #Dandelions
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“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Good Morning #Gratitude #Garden
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“Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Love #Peace #Children
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“Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Funny #Truth #Agreement
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“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Men #Mind #Emergencies
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“Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Writing #Night #Two
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“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Wise #Wisdom #Party
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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.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Common Sense #Rose #Cabbage
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“What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Fall #Autumn #Years
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“There is something magnificent in having a country to love.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Country #4th Of July #Magnificent
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“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Ambition #Sublime #Lines
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“The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Hypocrisy #Devil #Intolerance
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“Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Bravery #Literature #Weak
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“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Inspirational #Creativity #Play
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“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Running #Time #Reality
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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Beauty #Men #Soul
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“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Men #Literature #Sincere
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“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Men #Genius #Talent
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“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Compromise #Poor #Umbrella
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“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#June #Perfect #Literature
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“Fate loves the fearless.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Fate #Thinking #Stay Positive
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“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
-- James Russell Lowell
#Life #Beautiful #Creativity
