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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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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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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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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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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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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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