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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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
Horizon
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Intelligence
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Education
Knowledge
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Educate
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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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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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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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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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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