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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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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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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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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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.
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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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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
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One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
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The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.
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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, more bright than morn! And voices chanted clear and sweet, To-day the Prince of Peace is born.
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And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
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What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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