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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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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Essayist
Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Women
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Woman
Earth
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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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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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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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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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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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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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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