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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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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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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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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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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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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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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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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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