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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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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?
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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The victory's in believing.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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