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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
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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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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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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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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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