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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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Communism means barbarism.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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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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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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