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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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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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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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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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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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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