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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
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
People
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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God'll send the bill to you.
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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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