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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?
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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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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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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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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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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