James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Garfield (24 September 1881)
“When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.”
Temenidæ Frag. 734
Context: When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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