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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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 wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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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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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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