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Earth's noblest thing, -- a woman perfected.
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Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
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All thoughts that mould the age beginDeep down within the primitive soul.
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The thing we long for, that we areFor one transcendent moment.
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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One day with life and heartIs more than time enough to find a world.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Though old the thought and oft expressed,'Tis his at last who says it best.
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The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snowNot whiter than the thoughts that housed below.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of eternity.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, -- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
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There is no price set on the lavish summer,And June may be had by the poorest comer.
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A reading-machine, always wound up and going,He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis oddHe leaves never a doorway to get in a god.
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You've gut to git up airlyEf you want to take in God.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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But John P.Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us hollerO' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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I don't believe in princerple,But oh I du in interest.
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Ez to my princerples, I gloryIn hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
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The very room, coz she was in,Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'
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'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,But hern went pity-Zekle.
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All kin' o' smily round the lips,An' teary round the lashes.
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Like streams that keep a summer mindSnow-hid in Jenooary.
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It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.
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James Russell Lowell |
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The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.
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James Russell Lowell |
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
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The surest plan to make a ManIs, think him so.
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Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.
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Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
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What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
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Here was a type of the true elder race,And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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James Russell Lowell |
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What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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James Russell Lowell |
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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