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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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
Massachusetts
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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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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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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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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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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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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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward Rains fall, suns rise and set Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
James Russell Lowell
You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
James Russell Lowell
Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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