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The victory's in believing.

James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Believing
Victory
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Believe

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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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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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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 curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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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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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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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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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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