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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

James Russell Lowell
Running, Time, Reality
1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.

James Russell Lowell
Sacrifice, Reality, Men
James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.377

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

James Russell Lowell
Reality, Government, Names
James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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