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Folks never understand the folks they hate.

~James Russell Lowell

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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 22nd, 1819

Died: August 12th, 1891

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