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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. (James Russell Lowell)
Freedom is the only law which genius knows. View quote
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave. View quote
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. View quote
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. View quote
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. View quote
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. View quote
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It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. View quote
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. View quote
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. View quote
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. (James Russell Lowell)
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. View quote
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. View quote
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them. View quote
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I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest. View quote
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. View quote
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Ez fer war, I call it murder- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. View quote
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She thought no v'ice hed sech a swing Ez hisn in the choir; My! when he made Ole Hunderd ring She knowed the Lord was nigher. View quote
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It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear. View quote
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No, never say nothin' without you're compelled tu, An' then don't say nothin' thet you can be held tu. View quote
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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. (James Russell Lowell)
Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. View quote
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A poet must needs be before his own age, to be even with posterity. View quote
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone. View quote
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If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? View quote
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