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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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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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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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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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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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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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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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