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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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Cambridge
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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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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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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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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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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