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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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 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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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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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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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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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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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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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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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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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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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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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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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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