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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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Never
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Genius
Rest
Grows
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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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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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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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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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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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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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