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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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The pine is the mother of legends.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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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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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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