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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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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Essayist
Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Statesmanship
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Brains
Brain
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Men
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Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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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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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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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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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
James Russell Lowell
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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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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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
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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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