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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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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.
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Communism means barbarism.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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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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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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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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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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