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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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