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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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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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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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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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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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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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