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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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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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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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