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Endurance is the crowning quality.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Endurance
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Crowning
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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