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The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.
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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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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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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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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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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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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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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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.
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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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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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