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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
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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The victory's in believing.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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