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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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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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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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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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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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