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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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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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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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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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