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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in 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
Massachusetts
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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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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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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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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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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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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