The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it and blessed are the eyes that find it.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.James Russell Lowell
'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
James Russell Lowell
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. .... . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
James Russell Lowell
All kin' o' smily round the lips, An' teary round the lashes.
James Russell Lowell
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell
Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
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