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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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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the Faery Queen.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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