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Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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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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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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