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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Good
Lengthen
Cheerfulness
Sunny
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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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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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward Rains fall, suns rise and set Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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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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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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