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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
Diplomat
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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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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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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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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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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