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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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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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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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