James Russell Lowell

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.

He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.

He seemed a cherub who had lost his way
And wandered hither, so his stay
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He seemed a cherub who had lost his way
And wandered hither, so his stay
With us was short, and 'twas most meet,
That he should be no delver in earth's clod,
Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet
To stand before his God:
O blest word--Evermore!