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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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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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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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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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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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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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