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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sentiments
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Conscience
Groveling
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Dreamy
Self
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Life
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Sensual
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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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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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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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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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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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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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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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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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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The pine is the mother of legends.
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