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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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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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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward Rains fall, suns rise and set Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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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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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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