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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.
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 riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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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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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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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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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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