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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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