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

James Russell Lowell

Nothing

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

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

James Russell Lowell

Fortune

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

James Russell Lowell

Day

World

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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

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

James Russell Lowell

Work

World

Fate loves the fearless.

James Russell Lowell

Fate

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell

Creativity

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.