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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

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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
Comes
Unlearning
Wisdom

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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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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
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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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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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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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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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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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