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Action, Man, World

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.

- James Russell Lowell

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

- James Russell Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

- James Russell Lowell

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

- James Russell Lowell

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

- James Russell Lowell

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