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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.

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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
Question
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Aspiration
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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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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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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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History is clarified experience.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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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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