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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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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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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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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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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward Rains fall, suns rise and set Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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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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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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