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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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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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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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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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