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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.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Truth
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Satire
Simplicity
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Reach
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Pine
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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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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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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