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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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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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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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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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 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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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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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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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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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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