For there's nothing we read of in torture's invent...

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Russell Lowell

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Never complain and never explain.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert Schuller

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

James Russell Lowell

That best academy, a mother's knee.

James Russell Lowell

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

James Russell Lowell

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

James Russell Lowell

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

James Russell Lowell

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