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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Cambridge
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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History is clarified experience.
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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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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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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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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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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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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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