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Taste is the next gift to genius.

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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
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Gift
Taste
Genius
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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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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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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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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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That pernicious sentiment, Our country, right or wrong.
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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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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is rumbling And crashing and crumbling.
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I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean it is not memory but judgment.
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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!
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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.
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