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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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
Massachusetts
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Woman
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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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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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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 flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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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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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
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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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