It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.
James Russell Lowell
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- My Study Windows. Abraham Lincoln, 1864.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, James Russell Lowell entry; My Study Windows. Abraham Lincoln, 1864.; Wording and named source checked in Bartlett’s published reference; the original work is identified by title and locator. Literary excerpts, n
- My Study Windows. Abraham Lincoln, 1864.
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