The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
-- James Russell Lowell

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« Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. »

― James Russell Lowell

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« But all God's angels come to us disguised:
Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death,
One after other lift their frowning masks,
And we behold the Seraph's face beneath,
All radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God. »

― James Russell Lowell

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« Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. »

― James Russell Lowell

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« But all God's angels come to us disguised:
Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death,
One after other lift their frowning masks,
And we behold the Seraph's face beneath,
All radiant with the glory and the calm
Of having looked upon the front of God. »

― James Russell Lowell

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Today's poem:

To the Dandelion
- by James Russell Lowell

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 3068: Birch Trees

Episode: 3068 Birch: The tree honored across the North, and the true substance of the Spruce Goose. Today, the Birch Goose.

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (22 Feb 1819-1891)