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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
Diplomat
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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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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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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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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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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