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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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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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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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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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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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