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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
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
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To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
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It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
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I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
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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 sneer is the weapon of the weak.
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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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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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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
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