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It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
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There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
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Most brains reflect but the crown of a hat.
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May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
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Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.
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We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.
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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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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.
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Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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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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Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
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Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
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Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.
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Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
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Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
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A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
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Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.
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O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing.
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Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song,— One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull...
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Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.
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Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.
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Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
James Russell Lowell
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Born:
February 22, 1819
Died:
August 12, 1891
(aged 72)
Bio:
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets.
Known for:
The Biglow papers (1848)
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Among My Books (1870)
A Fable for Critics (1848)
The Poems Of James Russell Lowell
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