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James Russell Lowell Quotes: If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
         

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.


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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.



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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.



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