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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
James Russell Lowell
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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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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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
James Russell Lowell
The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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