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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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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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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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