American - Poet | February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
James Russell Lowell
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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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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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