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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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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The New World's sons from England's breast we drew Such milk as bids remember whence we came, Proud of her past wherefrom our future grew, This window we inscribe with Raleigh's fame.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
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The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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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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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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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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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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