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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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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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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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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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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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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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It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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