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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
Fate
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Syllables
Tongue
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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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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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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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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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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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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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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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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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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