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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
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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Communism means barbarism.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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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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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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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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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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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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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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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
James Russell Lowell
Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
James Russell Lowell
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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