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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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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It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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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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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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