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Less Quotes by James Russell Lowell
- As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
- The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of…
- All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
- Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
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