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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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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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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 Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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