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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
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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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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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History is clarified experience.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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