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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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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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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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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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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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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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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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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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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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