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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

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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
Keats
Longed
Deserve
Fame

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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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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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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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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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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Communism means barbarism.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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