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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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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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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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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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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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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
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