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There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

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Emma Lazarus
Age: 38 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 22
Died: 1887
Died: November 19
Journalist
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New York City
New York
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Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
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Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening.
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Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...
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Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.
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Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.
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Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.
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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
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I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.
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The Jewish problem is as old as history, and assumes in each age a new form. The life or death of millions of human beings hangs upon its solution its agitation revives the fiercest passions for good and for evil that inflame the human breast.
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When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
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Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
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The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.
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