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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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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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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
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