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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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World
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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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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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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