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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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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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.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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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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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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