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| James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons. Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime. I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. The surest plan to make a man is, think him so. They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. |
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