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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

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
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Ripe
Rotten
Society
Change
Time

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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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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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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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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 greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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