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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Journalist
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Poet
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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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, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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The future works out great men's destinies The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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