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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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Ye come and go incessant we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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