The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.
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These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.James Russell Lowell
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
James Russell Lowell
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
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A poet must needs be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell Lowell
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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