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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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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.
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A wise man travels to discover himself.
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It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
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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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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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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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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
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Aspiration sees only one side of every question possession many.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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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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