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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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