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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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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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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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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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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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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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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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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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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Light is the symbol of truth.
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