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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
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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 soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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