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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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It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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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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There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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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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Freedom needs all her poets it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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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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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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