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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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Journalist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Gold
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
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