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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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
Massachusetts
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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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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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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