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As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
'Neath every one a friend.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.
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Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.
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It is right precious to behold
The first long surf of climbing light
Flood all the thirsty east with gold.
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It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
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Nature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining.
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And each glad, obedient planet like a golden shuttle sings Through the web which Time is weaving in his never-resting loom
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All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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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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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
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New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
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God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.
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Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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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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Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.
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A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
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Born:
February 22, 1819
Died:
August 12, 1891
(aged 72)
Bio:
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Known for:
The Biglow papers (1848)
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Among My Books (1870)
A Fable for Critics (1848)
The Poems Of James Russell Lowell
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