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There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
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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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.
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Silence is sorrow's best food.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
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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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Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
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To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.
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