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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.
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
Carried
Till
Ocean
Open
Sealed
Order
Voyage
Make
Voyages
Men
Orders
Life
Fairly
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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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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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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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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