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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.
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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Cambridge
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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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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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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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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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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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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