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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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