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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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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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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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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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