American - Poet | February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891
Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
James Russell Lowell
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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