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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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.
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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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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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History is clarified experience.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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