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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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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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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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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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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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