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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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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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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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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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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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