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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
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We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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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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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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Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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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 question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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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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Over our manhood bend the skies Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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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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The one thing finished in this hasty world.
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