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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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Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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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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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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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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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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