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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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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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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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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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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