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 An acre of performance is worth the whole world of
promise.
| James Russell Lowell | 
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who can
not be persuaded to say it. | James Russell Lowell |
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Earth gets price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The priest hath his fees, who comes and shrives us,
We bargain for the graves we lie in;
At the devil’s booth are all things sold,
Each ounce of dross cos | James Russell Lowell |
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Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run
than pity, for it tends to foster in man those stronger
qualities which make them good citizens. | James Russell Lowell |
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From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature’s text ... | James Russell Lowell |
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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes
hardest to bear are those which never happen. | James Russell Lowell |
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, we are
happy now because God wills it. | James Russell Lowell |
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to
decide,
In the strife of Truth and Falsehood, for the good
or evil side. | James Russell Lowell |
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of
warning. | James Russell Lowell |
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is
wholesome for the character. | James Russell Lowell |
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That best academy, a mother’s knee. | James Russell Lowell |
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That is no true alms which the hand can hold.
He gives only the worthless gold
Who gives from a sense of duty. | James Russell Lowell |
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of
reformers and dreads nothing so much as their charity
and patience. | James Russell Lowell |
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their
opinions. | James Russell Lowell |
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The intellect has only one failing, which to be sure, is a
very considerable one. It has no conscience. | James Russell Lowell |
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