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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. (James Russell Lowell)
No mud can soil us but the mud we throw. View quote
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory. View quote
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Moliere Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter. View quote
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is youre pooty sure to fail, Ez long z the head keeps turnin back for counsel to the the tail. View quote
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright. View quote
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. View quote
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. View quote
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love But all God's angels come to us disguised Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God. View quote
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. View quote
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design. (James Russell Lowell)
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking. View quote
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. View quote
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. View quote
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The one thing finished in this hasty world. View quote
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper. View quote
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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.' View quote
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Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. View quote
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Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. View quote
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving. View quote
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential. (James Russell Lowell)
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. View quote
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it and blessed are the eyes that find it. View quote
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Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. View quote
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Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an' flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God. View quote
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