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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
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Clarified
History
Experience

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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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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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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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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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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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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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To fail at all is to fail utterly.
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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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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
James Russell Lowell