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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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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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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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