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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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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Fate loves the fearless.
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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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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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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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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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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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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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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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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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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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