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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
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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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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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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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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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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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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God'll send the bill to you.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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