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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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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
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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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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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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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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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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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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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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward Rains fall, suns rise and set Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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