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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
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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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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.
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Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.
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Those who love are but one step from heaven.
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
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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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In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.
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Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
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