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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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