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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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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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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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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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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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The victory's in believing.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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