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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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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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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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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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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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