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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 New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Communism means barbarism.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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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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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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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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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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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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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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