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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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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Cambridge
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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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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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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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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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