James Russell

James Russell
Left-handed relief pitcher known for an average fastball and good slider who made his MLB debut in 2010 for the Chicago Cubs.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1986
CityCincinnati, OH
grief sorrow great-idea
Sorrow is the great idealizer.
men soul eternity
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, 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.
truth forever shadow
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
giving gold duty
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
onward-and-upward duty teach
New occasions teach new duties.
beauty sweet eye
Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.
lying hate love-is
To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
pride weakness twins
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins.
education knowledge knowing
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
ignorance intelligent dangerous
It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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That best academy, a mother's knee.
spring may fraud
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.