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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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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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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
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