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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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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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