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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
Massachusetts
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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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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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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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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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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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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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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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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