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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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Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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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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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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