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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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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Fate loves the fearless.
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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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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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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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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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