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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
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Sentimentality
Crystals
Sentiment
Sentiments
Fancy
Emotion
Pretty
Precipitated
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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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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