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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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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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