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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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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Cambridge
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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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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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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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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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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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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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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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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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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