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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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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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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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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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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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