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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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