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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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
Imagination
Society
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Needful
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Loner
Wholesome
Miscellaneous
Loneliness
Solitude
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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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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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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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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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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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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