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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
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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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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History is clarified experience.
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Communism means barbarism.
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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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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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