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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Exact
Proportion
Trees
Tree
Respect
Tempts
Environment
Partiality
Great
Willingly
Men
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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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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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