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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
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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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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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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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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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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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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