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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

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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
Loves
Fate
Sweet
Best
Sonorous
Syllables
Tongue

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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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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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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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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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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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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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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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