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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
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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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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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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