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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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