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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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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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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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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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It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.
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The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.
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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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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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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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