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

James Russell Lowell

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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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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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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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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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