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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Taste
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Epigrams
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Must
Vice
Suits
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Vices
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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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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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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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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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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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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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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Communism means barbarism.
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Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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