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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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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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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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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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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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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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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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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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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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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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