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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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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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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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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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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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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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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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