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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Every
Men
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Decide
Nation
Nations
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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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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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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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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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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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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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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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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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