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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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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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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
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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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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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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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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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The victory's in believing.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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