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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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Cambridge
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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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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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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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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Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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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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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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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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Ye come and go incessant we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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