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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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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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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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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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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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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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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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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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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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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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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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