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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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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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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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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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