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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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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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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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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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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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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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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