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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 word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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