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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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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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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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