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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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Literature
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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The victory's in believing.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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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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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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