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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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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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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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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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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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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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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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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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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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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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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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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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