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Life, Rest

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

- James Russell Lowell

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

- James Russell Lowell

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

- James Russell Lowell

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

- James Russell Lowell

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

- James Russell Lowell

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

- James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

- James Russell Lowell

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