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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
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Cambridge
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,- Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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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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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
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Ah, in this world, where every guiding thread Ends suddenly in the one sure centre, death, The visionary hand of Might-have-been Alone can fill Desire's cup to the brim!
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Light is the symbol of truth.
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The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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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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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.
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Stern men with empires in their brains.
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Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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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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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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