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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Pillage
Went
Christ
War
Thought
Kind

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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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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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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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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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Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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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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