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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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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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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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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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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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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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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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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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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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