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Take winter as you find him, a...

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness th...

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

James Lowell 598 quotes

To me it seems not unreasonabl...

To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

James Lowell 598 quotes

And the poorest twig on the el...

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Heaven is neither here nor the...

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Aspiration sees only one side ...

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The snow had begun in the gloa...

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

James Lowell 598 quotes

To make the common marvelous i...

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

James Lowell 598 quotes

As one lamp lights another, no...

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

James Lowell 598 quotes

They are slaves who fear to sp...

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

James Lowell 598 quotes

A poet must need be before his...

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

James Lowell 598 quotes

The better part of every man's...

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Things always seem fairer when...

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

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

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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....