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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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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A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.
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Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
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The wisest man could ask no more of fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the many, honored by the few Nothing to court in Church, or World, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great.
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The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
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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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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?
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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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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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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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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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