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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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What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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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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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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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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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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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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Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
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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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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
James Russell Lowell
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.
James Russell Lowell
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
James Russell Lowell
