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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
Massachusetts
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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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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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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The victory's in believing.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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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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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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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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