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Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?
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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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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Taste is the next gift to genius.
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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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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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God is not dumb, that he should speak no more If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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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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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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