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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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The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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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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The victory's in believing.
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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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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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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