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• An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

  James Russell Lowell

  Angel, Vision, Doorways

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.225

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• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Pride, Weakness

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Play, Echoes

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Letters. Second appendix, containing miscellanies and gleanings. Translations of Addison's Latin poems. Addison's Latin prose. Official documents. Addisoniana. General index”, p.535

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• And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fall, Sleep, Tears

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1882). “'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.

  Mencius

  Men, Water, Humanity

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• The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Evil, Groups

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• To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Humble, Cards

  William Shenstone, David Mallet (1822). “The Poems of William Shenstone ...”, p.154

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• At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Sun, Corruption

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.26

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• The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.

  Alexander Pope

  Fall, Twilight, Autumn

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.62

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• Soft closer of our eyes! Low murmur of tender lullabies!

  John Keats

  Sleep, Eye, Lullaby

  John Keats (1925). “Poetical Works”

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• I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Song, Remember, Can Not

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.30

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• Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Quality, Interest

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• If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Love, Oil, Ifs

  Lewis Grizzard (2014). “Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night”, p.2, NewSouth Books

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• My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

  David McCullough

  War, Book, Army

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Money, Men, Order

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

  Herbert Spencer

  Equality, Men, Progress

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.198

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• My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.

  Jonathan Raban

  Marine, Sky, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Adversity

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Change, Men, Annoying

  "In Eutropium". I, 181. As quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 93-96, 1922.

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• Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.

  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

  Children, Lying, Men

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• But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.

  Robert Sternberg

  Teacher, Stupid, School

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• Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

  Benjamin Rush

  Water, Hot, Frozen

  Benjamin Rush (1835). “Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind”, p.119

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• It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

  Sandy Alderson

  Jobs, Thinking, Umpires

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• Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Children, Example

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• You've probably heard the term, 'red flag warning.' That means there are extreme conditions. Low humidity, high temperatures. The fuels are extremely dry and volatile. We classify those in East Tennessee as 'fire days' so if your fire class day is a 1, it's relatively low. A class 5 day would be an extremely high danger day. A day like Sunday would be a 4 or a 5.

  Bruce Miller

  Mean, Sunday, Fire

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