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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Clarified
History
Experience

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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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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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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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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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Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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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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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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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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