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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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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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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man Great souls are portions of eternity.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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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.
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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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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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