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James Russell Lowell

Virtues
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
4.7 · 62 votes · 161 reads
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Society
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
4.6 · 10 votes · 93 reads
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Thought and Reason
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.
5.0 · 38 votes · 123 reads
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Thought and Reason
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
3.0 · 37 votes · 1 reads
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Virtues
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
3.8 · 41 votes · 183 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
3.5 · 22 votes · 76 reads
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Thought and Reason
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
4.7 · 34 votes · 146 reads
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Art and Culture
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
4.4 · 57 votes · 35 reads
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