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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Humans
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So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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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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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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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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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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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 thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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