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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.
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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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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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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