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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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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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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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
James Russell Lowell
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
James Russell Lowell
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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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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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
James Russell Lowell
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
James Russell Lowell
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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