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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
Rehabilitated
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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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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
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Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
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Endurance is the crowning quality.
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Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.
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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the poorest reality, who does not so love his work that he is not only glad to give himself for it, but finds rather a gain than a sacrifice in the surrender.
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The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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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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If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
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'T is heaven alone that is given away 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
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The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed Man is more than Constitutions better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
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My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.
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The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
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Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
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