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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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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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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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Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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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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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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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 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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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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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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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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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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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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