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Nature, they say, doth dote, A...

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

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From lower to the higher next,...

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Not a change for the better in...

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

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If I were asked what book is b...

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,-and that is a book honestly come by.

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They talk about their Pilgrim ...

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

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How I do love the earth. I fee...

How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.

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I tell ye wut, my judgment is ...

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

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No mud can soil us but the mud...

No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.

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If God made poets for anything...

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

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The one thing finished in this...

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

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Here was a type of the true el...

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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And blessed are the horny hand...

And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

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A wise man travels to discover...

A wise man travels to discover himself.

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Nature fits all her children w...

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

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If one waits for the right tim...

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

James Lowell 598 quotes

He gives us the very quintesse...

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

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Most men make the voyage of li...

Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

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The flowers or weeds that spri...

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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No man is born into the world ...

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

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The ultimate result of protect...

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

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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....