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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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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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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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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
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