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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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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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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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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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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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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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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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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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