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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Genius
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Literature
Common
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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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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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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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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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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