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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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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Earth
Giving
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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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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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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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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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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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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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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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