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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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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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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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The victory's in believing.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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