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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
Clarified
History
Experience

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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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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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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, I find thee worthy do this deed for me?
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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