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History is clarified experience.

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
History
Experience
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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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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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