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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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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
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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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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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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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