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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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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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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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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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Ye come and go incessant we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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