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Greatly begin! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime— Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Greatly begin! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime— Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 294; printed byline: James Russell Lowell; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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