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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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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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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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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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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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