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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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