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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
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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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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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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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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