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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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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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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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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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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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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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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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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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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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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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