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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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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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