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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
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It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
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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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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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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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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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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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Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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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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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Communism means barbarism.
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