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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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 snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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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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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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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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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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