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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.
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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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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