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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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
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Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Society
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Quixote
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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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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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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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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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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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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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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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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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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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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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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