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Better Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
- There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
- Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to…
- The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
- If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book,-and…
- The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
- The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and…
- Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's…
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius