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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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Cambridge
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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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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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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