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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

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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
Taste
Public
Epigram
Epigrams
Half
Suit
Stories
Vice
Must
Suits
Pleasant
Vices

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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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