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In the scale of the destinies,...

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

James Lowell 598 quotes

O reputation! dearer far than ...

O reputation! dearer far than life.

James Lowell 598 quotes

God is not dumb, that he shoul...

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Most religion-mongers have bat...

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The discontent with the existi...

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Reading Chaucer is like brushi...

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Have you ever rightly consider...

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.

James Lowell 598 quotes

It is curious how tyrannical t...

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is.

James Lowell 598 quotes

In the parliament of the prese...

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

James Lowell 598 quotes

It is singular how impatient m...

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The right of individual proper...

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Borrowed garments never keep o...

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Piety is indifferent whether s...

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Men have their intellectual an...

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Moral supremacy is the only on...

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Metaphor is no argument, thoug...

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

James Lowell 598 quotes

God does not weigh criminality...

God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The intellect has only one fai...

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

James Lowell 598 quotes

It is only the intellect that ...

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The opening of the first gramm...

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....