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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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
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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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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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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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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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