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  And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end....
• Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- The Schoolmistress, Stanza 6...
• Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years. -- George William Curti
• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
  -- James Russell Lowell...
• One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Columbu...
• All thoughts that mould the age begin Deep down within the primitive soul.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...
• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Rousseau and the Sentimentali...
• It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- An Incident in a Railroad Ca...