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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
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Cambridge
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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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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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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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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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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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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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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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