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The first lesson of life is to...

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

James Lowell 598 quotes

There is surely room for yet a...

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Now the heart is so full that ...

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

James Lowell 598 quotes

It was in making education not...

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Better to me the poor mans cru...

Better to me the poor mans crust,
Better the blessing of the poor,
Though I turn me empty from his door;
That is no true alms which the hand can hold;
He gives nothing but worthless gold
Who gives from a sense of duty;
But he who gives a slender mite,
And gives to that which is out of sight,
That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty
Which runs through all and doth all unite, -
The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
The heart outstretches its eager p

James Lowell 598 quotes

The Holy Supper is kept, indee...

The Holy Supper is kept, indeed,
In whatso we share with anothers need;
Not what we give, but what we share,
For the gift without the giver is bare;
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The question of common sense i...

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' -
a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Reading enables us to see with...

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

James Lowell 598 quotes

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,...

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

James Lowell 598 quotes

To win the secret of a weed's ...

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Our American republic will end...

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

James Lowell 598 quotes

It is only by instigation of t...

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

James Lowell 598 quotes

In vain we call old notions fu...

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The soil out of which such men...

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Whenever you have the kind of ...

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Better one bite at forty, of t...

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

James Lowell 598 quotes

No man, I suspect, ever lived ...

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Many make the household but on...

Many make the household but only one the home.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Compromise makes a good umbrel...

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Puritanism, believing itself q...

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

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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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...

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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....