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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
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Cheerfulness
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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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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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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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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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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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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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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