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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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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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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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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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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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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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