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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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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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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward Rains fall, suns rise and set Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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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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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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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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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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