#ld

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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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

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Every person born into this world their work is born with them. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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

— James Russell Lowell

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