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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Emotion
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Temperament
Tenderness
Quality
Accidents
Feelings
Generous
Life
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Goodness
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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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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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