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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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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.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
James Russell Lowell
The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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