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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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Massachusetts
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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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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
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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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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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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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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
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Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.
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Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.
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God'll send the bill to you.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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