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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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Cambridge
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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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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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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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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