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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

James Russell Lowell

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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
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Men
Buried
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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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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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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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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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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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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