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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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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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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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Light is the symbol of truth.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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