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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
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The rich man's sons inherits cares The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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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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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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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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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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