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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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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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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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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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