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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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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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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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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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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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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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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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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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