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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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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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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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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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