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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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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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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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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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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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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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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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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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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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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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