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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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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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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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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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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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