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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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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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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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History is clarified experience.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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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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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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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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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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