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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
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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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The victory's in believing.
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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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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The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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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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Humbleness is always grace always dignity
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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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