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Fate loves the fearless.

James Russell Lowell

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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
Loves
Fate
Thinking
Fearless

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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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History is clarified experience.
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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