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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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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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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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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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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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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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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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