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
loyalty bravery may
Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
army greek march
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
sweet hero men
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan Repeating us by rote: For him her Old World moulds aside she threw And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.
broken purpose vain
It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
ends lows
To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.
evil inward driven
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
son past world
The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
death believe glasses
We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
death wise country
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.
criticism moral teach
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
character angel heart
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man.
white hands soil
Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
reputation
O reputation! dearer far than life.
eye doors house
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.