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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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Cambridge
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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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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