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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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