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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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