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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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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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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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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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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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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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