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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
Diplomat
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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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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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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History is clarified experience.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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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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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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