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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Curiosity
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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