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Letter "J" » James Russell Lowell Quotes
«My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know»
«This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur»
«It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves»
«Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice»
«Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart,- yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes»
«Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men»
«Greatly begin! though thou have time - But for a line, be that sublime, - Not failure, but low aim is crime»
«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»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Common sense,
Destiny,
Education
| Keywords:
Compulsory education, practically, settled
«A sneer is the weapon of the weak»
«Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best»
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