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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.

James Russell Lowell

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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
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Never
Spring
Flower
Tomorrow
Weeds
Dead
Weed
Opinion
Opinions
Alone
Flowers
Change
Seeds
Today
Foolish

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