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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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Journalist
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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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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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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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The pine is the mother of legends.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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