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A wise man travels to discover 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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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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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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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
James Russell Lowell
The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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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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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
James Russell Lowell
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
James Russell Lowell
Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
James Russell Lowell
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
James Russell Lowell
