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Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.
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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.
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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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The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.
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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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I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
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Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
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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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Light is the symbol of truth.
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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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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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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
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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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