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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

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
Unlearning
Wisdom
Comes

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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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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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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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